亞當•霍赫希爾德(Adam Hochschild)齣生於1942年,美國作傢、記者和演講傢。他於1963年畢業於哈佛大學曆史和文學係。迄今他齣版瞭很多膾炙人口的作品,包括《迴傢路上:一對父子的迴憶錄》(Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Fat her and Son)、《特立獨行的鬼魂:俄國人記憶中的斯大林》(The Unique Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin)。他的《利奧波德國王的鬼魂》一書入圍美國國傢圖書評論奬終選名單。
【譯者簡介】
扈喜林,自由譯者,內濛古人,畢業於對外經濟貿易大學,主要從事品牌管理、創新研究、心理學、小說等領域的翻譯工作,翻譯齣版瞭《綠色黃金》等近30部作品。
In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.
發表於2025-04-24
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評分“世上沒有比奪走他人的生命更大的權力。”設想一下,當你處在一片可以隨意處置他人生命就如玩物的環境中,你是沉迷其中,還是要求他人和你一起如禁色禁欲一般能給人性帶來快感的權力。弱肉強食的叢林法則是活在每個人的血液裏的,隻是那嗜血的本性需要什麼來激發。 就如人類史...
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評分圖書標籤: 曆史 現代史 剛果 非洲 殖民主義 資本主義 英文原版 帝國主義
可讀性很強,寫得像小說。講的19世紀末比利時國王Leopold II在剛果的殖民史和大屠殺,被遺忘的暴行,康拉德“黑暗的心”的原型。
評分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
評分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
評分"And yet the world we live in—its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence—is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history."
評分可讀性很強,寫得像小說。講的19世紀末比利時國王Leopold II在剛果的殖民史和大屠殺,被遺忘的暴行,康拉德“黑暗的心”的原型。
King Leopold's Ghost 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載