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The Poisonwood Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 245 times as congo)
avg rating 4.12 — 812,183 ratings — published 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 180 times as congo)
avg rating 4.20 — 73,033 ratings — published 1998
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as congo)
avg rating 3.43 — 574,683 ratings — published 1899
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as congo)
avg rating 4.35 — 19,092 ratings — published 2023
Congo: een geschiedenis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as congo)
avg rating 4.39 — 8,883 ratings — published 2010
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as congo)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,763 ratings — published 2010
Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as congo)
avg rating 3.98 — 12,299 ratings — published 2007
In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as congo)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,329 ratings — published 2000
Congo (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as congo)
avg rating 3.64 — 181,270 ratings — published 1980
Broken Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as congo)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,098 ratings — published 2005
The Lumumba Plot: The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as congo)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,173 ratings — published 2023
Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as congo)
avg rating 4.10 — 812 ratings — published 2006
Black Moses (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as congo)
avg rating 3.42 — 2,341 ratings — published 2015
The Assassination of Lumumba (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as congo)
avg rating 3.97 — 313 ratings — published 1999
The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A People's History (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 3.92 — 132 ratings — published 2002
How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 4.24 — 7,681 ratings — published 2017
A Bend in the River (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as congo)
avg rating 3.76 — 19,185 ratings — published 1979
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as congo)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,830 ratings — published
Congo Inc.: Bismarck's Testament (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as congo)
avg rating 3.71 — 501 ratings — published 2014
Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 957 ratings — published 2013
Endangered (Ape Quartet #1)
by (shelved 17 times as congo)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,200 ratings — published 2012
Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as congo)
avg rating 3.69 — 448 ratings — published 2007
Mémoires de porc-épic (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,256 ratings — published 2006
El sueño del celta (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as congo)
avg rating 3.86 — 10,660 ratings — published 2010
The Death of Comrade President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.58 — 626 ratings — published 2018
Radio Congo: Signals of Hope from Africa's Deadliest War (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 435 ratings — published 2012
African Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as congo)
avg rating 3.18 — 1,236 ratings — published 2003
Brazzaville Beach (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.96 — 6,903 ratings — published 1990
A Thousand Sisters: My Journey into the Worst Place on Earth to Be a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,313 ratings — published 2010
Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,050 ratings — published 2010
The Witch Doctor's Wife (Belgian Congo Mystery #1)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,542 ratings — published 2009
The Mission Song (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as congo)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,524 ratings — published 2006
The African Dream: The Diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 607 ratings — published 1994
Congo, My Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 4.14 — 44 ratings — published 1961
Tintin au Congo (Tintin #2)
by (shelved 10 times as congo)
avg rating 3.14 — 12,522 ratings — published 1930
The War That Doesn't Say Its Name: The Unending Conflict in the Congo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 4.10 — 151 ratings — published
La vie et demie (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.54 — 252 ratings — published 1979
The Catastrophist (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.73 — 887 ratings — published 1997
Little Boys Come from the Stars (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.87 — 267 ratings — published 1998
The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.38 — 58 ratings — published 2007
Johnny Mad Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as congo)
avg rating 3.91 — 457 ratings — published 2002
The Lights of Pointe-Noire (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.66 — 304 ratings — published 2013
Photo de groupe au bord du fleuve (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.33 — 246 ratings — published 2010
The Great African War: Congo and Regional Geopolitics, 1996–2006 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.91 — 55 ratings — published 2005
Consuming the Congo: War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.41 — 99 ratings — published 2014
Lumumba Speaks: The Speeches and Writings of Patrice Lumumba, 1958-1961 (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 4.49 — 43 ratings — published 1972
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as congo)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,034 ratings — published 2000
The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as congo)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,172 ratings — published 2012
“I also do not begrudge Hochschild his millions, although, unlike him, I have untold praise for the capitalist system that produced them (he recently compared Amazon warehouses to slave plantations and in a 2016 book he lamented the failure of a socialist revolution in Spain). But to write history requires an immersion in the context, constraints, and worldviews of those involved.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
“Hochschild insists on calling the EIC an example of “colonialism”, stretching the term beyond its meaning. European colonies were governed by and accountable to the institutions of a liberal state at home. That was the fundamental structural fact of a European colony, meaning the characteristic that explains its behavior. This fundamental fact was absent from the EIC. This explains its evolution and eventual takeover by Belgium. The EIC was a second-best solution to the absence of colonialism. Hochschild will have none of it because his intention all along was to use his tale as an indictment of European colonialism (“A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa”, as the subtitle put it). A fevered ideological agenda does not collapse a valid conceptual distinction.”
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
― The Ghost Still Haunts: Adam Hochschild responds to Bruce Gilley, who follows in kind
