Adam Hochschild's "King Leopold's Ghost": Tools

Abstract: 3 pages in length. King Leopold, who "found a number of tools at his disposal that had not been available to empire builders of earlier times" (Hochschild PG), possessed cunning and innovation like no other before him; with the sole objective to amass a fortune while at the same time rule with an iron fist, author Adam Hochschild illustrates how one of the king's most prized tools for achieving his objectives were in the form of human beings

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Catagory: England (Before 1700)

Subcatagory: Western Civilization

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