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King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Häftad, 2024
170 kr
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, Adam Hochschild's King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for …
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Häftad, 2020
259 kr
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The 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." — Christian Science Monitor “As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and …
Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
Häftad, 2017
123 kr
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From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that …
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
Häftad, 2020
221 kr
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In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun …
To End All Wars
How the First World War Divided Britain
Häftad, 2012
242 kr
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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 …
Spräng bojorna : kampen mot slavhandeln
Inbunden, 2006
36 kr
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Tolv människor samlades året 1787 på ett tryckeri i London för att bilda en förening mot slaveriet. De blev naturligtvis genast utskrat-tade. Men fem år senare hade den lilla gruppen dragit igång den största bojkottkampanj som världen dittills skådat. 300 000 eng-elsmän vägrade att köpa …
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
Inbunden, 2018
246 kr
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In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun …
Aldrig mera krig : lojalitet och uppror 1914-1918
Pocket, 2013
3,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
89 kr
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Av författaren till Kung Leopolds vålnad En iskall gryning i norra Frankrike, januari 1917. Trettiosex skott smattrar genom tystnaden och arkebuseringen av de brittiska underofficerarna Joseph Stones, Peter Goggins och John McDonald är fullbordad. Deras brott var att ha flytt undan ett tyskt …
American Midnight
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis
Ljudbok, 2022
208 kr
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From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, …
American Midnight
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
Häftad, 2023
155 kr
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National Bestseller • One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "masterly" (New York Times) reassessment of the overlooked …
Bury the Chains
The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
E-bok, 2010
247 kr
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Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost, charts the history of the moment everything changed. In 1788, the slave trade flourishing across the British Empire, …
Rebel Cinderella
From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
Ljudbok, 2020
302 kr
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From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time. Rose Pastor arrived in New York …
American Midnight
The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
E-bok, 2022
178 kr
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National Bestseller One of the year's most acclaimed works of nonfictionA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New Yorker, Chicago Tribune, Kirkus, New York Post, Fast CompanyFrom legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a "e;masterly"e; (New York Times) reassessment of the …
Lessons from a Dark Time and Other Essays
E-bok, 2018
356 kr
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In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozen essays and pieces of reporting from his long career. Threaded through them all is his concern for social justice and the people who have fought for it. The articles here range from a California gun …
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
E-bok, 1999
11 kr
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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 …
To End All Wars
A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
E-bok, 2011
85 kr
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World War I stands as one of history’s most senseless spasms of carnage, defying rational explanation. In a riveting, suspenseful narrative with haunting echoes for our own time, Adam Hochschild brings it to life as never before. He focuses on the long-ignored moral drama of the war’s critics, …
Spain In Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939
E-bok, 2016
102 kr
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From the acclaimed, best-selling author Adam Hochschild, a sweeping history of the Spanish Civil War, told through a dozen characters, including Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell: a tale of idealism, heartbreaking suffering, and a noble cause that failed For three crucial years in the 1930s, the …
Finding the Trapdoor
Essays, Portraits, Travels
E-bok, 2017
276 kr
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For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild''s voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild''s readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition, a …
Airplanes, Women, and Song
Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer
Av Bois Sergievsky, Adam Hochschild m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
423 kr
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Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a …
Rebel Cinderella
From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
E-bok, 2020
113 kr
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From the best-selling author of King Leopold's Ghost and Spain in Our Hearts comes the astonishing but forgotten story of an immigrant sweatshop worker who married an heir to a great American fortune and became one of the most charismatic radical leaders of her time.Rose Pastor arrived in New York …
To End All Wars
A Story of Protest and Patriotism in the First World War
E-bok, 2011
142 kr
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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 …
Bury the Chains
The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
186 kr
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Eighteenth-century Britain was the world’s leading centre for the slave trade. Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild, author of the Duff Cooper prize-winning King Leopold's Ghost, charts the history of the moment everything changed. In 1788, the slave trade flourishing across the British Empire, …
Spain in Our Hearts
Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
E-bok, 2016
173 kr
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From the moment it began in 1936, the Spanish Civil War became the political question of the age. Hitler and Mussolini quickly sent aircraft, troops and supplies to the right-wing generals bent on overthrowing Spain's elected government. Millions of people around the world felt passionately that …
King Leopold's Ghost
A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
E-bok, 2019
173 kr
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Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver.In the late nineteenth century, a time when Africa was being parcelled among …
