Book Description
Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Author : Paul Belien
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,22 MB
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1845406400
Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Author : Paul Belien
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1845406419
Offers a history of the monarchy of Belgium, a country artificially created in 1817. This book argues that the pan-European super-state resembles a 'Greater-Belgium' rather than a 'Greater-Switzerland'.
Author : Conte Egon Caesar Corti
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Europe
ISBN :
Author : Angelo Solomon Rappoport
Publisher : London, Hutchinson
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,71 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Belgium
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,24 MB
Release : 1897
Category : World history
ISBN :
Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 1893
Category : World history
ISBN :
Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 30,57 MB
Release : 1899
Category : World history
ISBN :
Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1899
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Adam Hochschild
Publisher : Picador
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 37,99 MB
Release : 2019-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1760785202
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Author : Théodore Juste
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,43 MB
Release : 1868
Category :
ISBN :