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Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Eighteenth-century Britain was the world's leading centre for the slave trade. Profits soared and fortunes were made, but in 1788 things began to change. Bury The Chains tells the remarkable story of the men who sought to end slavery and brought the issue to the heart of British political life. 'Hochsch ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, they were filled with valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Freedom in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
$27.95 AUD
Category: History
In "an enthralling story, full of fascinating characters, intense drama, high adventure, deceitful manipulation, courageous truth-telling, and splendid moral fervor" ("Christian Science Monitor"), Hochschild tells the story of King Leopold of Belgium, a megalomaniac of monstrous portions. 31 photos. Map ...Show more
King Leopold's Ghost - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
$31.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
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 R ...Show more
Spain in Our Hearts : Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 by Adam Hochschild
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
To End All Wars: A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War by Adam Hochschild
$6.00 AUD
$21.99 (72% off)
Category: Military
In this brilliant new work of history, Adam Hochschild follows a group of characters connected by blood ties, close friendships or personal enmities and shows how the war exposed the divisions between them. They include the brother and sister whose views on the war could not have been more diametrically ...Show more
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