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| | King Leopold's Ghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hochschild claims that the estimates about the reduction of the population of the Congo reported in his book are taken directly from Stengers' own books. | | | Hochschild describes Léopold as a man of greed who, obsessed by the desire for a colony, hides his real intentions under "philanthropic" purposes. | | | King Leopold's Ghost (1998 ISBN 0-330-49233-0) is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that explores the exploitation of the Congo Free State by Léopold II of Belgium. |
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| | Adam Hochschild: bio and encyclopedia article |
| | King leopolds ghost (1998 isbn 0-330-49233-0) is a book by adam hochschild.... | | | Hochschild's first book was a memoir, EHandler: no quick summary. | | | His books have been translated into twelve languages. |
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| | As Adam Hochschild's disturbing new book on the Belgian Congo makes clear, however, Kurtz was based on several historical figures, and the horror Conrad described was all too real. | | | There is a book written by Adam Hochschild, called King Leopold's Ghost. | | | With this book, Hochschild, like other historians before him, ensures that King Leopold has not gotten away with his efforts to erase the memory of his brutal acts. |
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| | Bury The Chains by Adam Hochschild: Reviews |
| | For all its terrible theme, Hochschild's book is not in the least depressing, because it is suffused with admiration for the courage and enlightenment of the men and women who crusaded against this evil, and finally prevailed. | | | He seldom misses an opportunity to mock and belittle it, and since many of the figures in his story are devout Christians, even clergymen, he is kept busy. | | | A powerful, elegantly written and often moving book, "Bury the Chains" offers us a vivid and compelling tale of men--idiosyncratic, persistent, dedicated and moralistic--at the reins of a novel movement to overthrow a powerful, well-entrenched and brutal institution. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/books/authors/hochschildadam/burythechains
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| | King Leopold's Ghost (ISBN 0618001905): Very Well Said |
| | Although Adam Hochschild's work is admirable it is not the masterpiece it is made out to be. | | | For Hochschild, Williams's writings of Africa "were a cry of outrage that came from the heart." Once again, the slippery nature of truth is a matter of interpretation. | | | Perhaps the most important feature of Hochschild's writing is that he doesn't shy away from the imperfections of his heros or try to brush away the moral ambiguities of his subject. |
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http://www.verywellsaid.com/titles/k/king-leopolds-ghost-0618001905.php
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| | AlterNet: King Leopold's Ghost Makes a Comeback |
| | AlterNet talked to Adam Hochschild about the reaction to his provocative book, the history of the Congo and the political landscape of the post-colonial era. | | | In the early 1990s, award-winning writer Adam Hochschild was sitting on a plane, reading a book, when he came across a footnote citing Mark Twain's involvement in a worldwide movement against Congolese slave labor. | | | Yet this is only half the tale assembled in "King Leopold's Ghost." Hochschild is able to reconstruct the largely untold history of the Congolese genocide through the work of several men--Europeans and Americans, black and white--who risked much to unmask Leopold's crimes. |
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http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=1059
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| | Tucson Weekly: Costly Conquests (June 24 - June 30, 1999) |
| | Instead, many of the eyewitnesses to whom Hochschild appeals for evidence were strangely proud of their efforts on behalf of their king, and Hochschild damns them with their own words. | | | But the scornful king, Adam Hochschild tells us in King Leopold's Ghost, nonetheless determined that his tiny country deserved a mighty empire. | | | One can take issue with Lindqvist at several turns, but his book is certainly thought-provoking, just as a good book of historical investigation should be. |
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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tw/06-24-99/book1.htm
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| | When freedom was the "peculiar institution" Salon.com |
| | But the process of abolition, Hochschild writes, was "a ragged and untidy epic," and his book reflects that untidiness. | | | And there are enough tales of high seas adventures, dramatic courtroom arguments, and heart-rending descriptions of slave conditions to fill several novels. | | | He has written five previous books, including "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa." And in his memoir, "Half the Way Home," he recalls his troubled relationship with his father, the head of a multinational firm that owned mines in southern Africa. |
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http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2005/01/19/hochschild/index.html
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| | King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild |
| | It is a thoughtful book, with Hochschild generally reminding the reader of the dangers the text poses, e.g. | | | "Hochschild prefers to see the Congo as a sorry tale that is in the end redemptive. | | | There were heroes in this sordid tale, human rights campaigners at a time when the concept was still a foreign one and when it was taken for granted that the white man was superior to the natives. |
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http://www.complete-review.com/reviews/hochscha/kingleo.htm
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| | Ishmael Reed Konch Magazine |
| | Adam Hochschild doesn't say this typical dribble outright, but that, in essence, is the gist of his article entitled: "Birth of a Nation - Has the bloody 200-year history of Haiti doomed it to more violence?" | | | Response to Adam Hochschild article in SF Chronicle | | | More than half-a-century of a U.S. embargo, the legacy of slavery, ecclesiastic colonialism combined with servicing the French debt - which was "renegotiated" in 1915 by the U.S. - that is what has crippled and doomed Haiti. |
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http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/june_2004/art_6_04_laurent.htm
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| | BOOK TV.ORG |
| | Author Bio: Adam Hochschild, co-founder of Mother Jones magazine, is the author of several books, including "Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels" and the more recent "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa." He teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at University of California at Berkeley. | | | Beginning his story in late 18th century England, Professor Hochschild tells the story of how and where the ideas to challenge the institution of slavery were developed and describes what inspired the men involved. | | | Description: Adam Hochschild discusses his new book, "Bury the Chains," about the first mass movement to abolish slavery. |
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http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=5427&schedID=333
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| | Belgian bully(Metro Times Detroit) |
| | Such was the dilemma for Edmund Morel, the hero of Adam Hochschild’s King Leopold& Ghost, a sprawling, novelistic account of exploitation and slavery in turn-of-the-century colonial Africa. | | | Indeed, a profound subtext of your book seems to be the deconstruction of the late 19th century "gentleman" explorer. | | | Tim Dugdale recently spoke to author Adam Hochschild about the region’s past and Africa’s future. |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/20/23/Features/culBelgian.htm
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| | Bury the Chains: An Interview with Adam Hochschild |
| | Hochschild’s previous book, King Leopold’s Ghost: A Tale of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, exposed the colonial genocide in the Belgian Congo; his earlier books include The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin and The Mirror At Midnight: A South African Journey. | | | I had long been fascinated by the character of John Newton, because I always like stories of personal transformation. | | | Bury the Chains: An Interview with Adam Hochschild |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2005/01/hochschild.html
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| | Susan Mernit's Blog: Good read: Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home |
| | Writing with power and restraint, Hochschild recreates the family dynamic with vivid anecdotes and sharp observations, sharing insights and wisdom that have relevance beyond his own history. | | | My brother lent me Mother Jones' co-founder Adam Hochschild's Half the Way Home, A Memoir of Father and Son, and it's so good I want to recommend it. | | | Good read: Adam Hochschild, Half the Way Home |
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http://susanmernit.blogspot.com/2005/01/good-read-adam-hochschild-half-way.html
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| | BookPage Interview Month 2005: author |
| | Hochschild did this in his critically acclaimed 1998 bestseller, King Leopold's Ghost, an astonishing account of King Leopold II of the Belgians' reign of terror in Africa at the beginning of the 20th century and the efforts to stop it. | | | Hochschild says he originally intended to write a biography of John Newton, author of the song, "Amazing Grace," a former slave-ship captain turned preacher who, legend says, had a change of heart and became a champion of the antislavery movement. | | | "This story is really a writer's dream," Hochschild says during a call to his home in San Francisco. |
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http://www.bookpage.com/0501bp/adam_hochschild.html
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| | EXN.ca Discovery |
| | Luckily, Adam Hochschild has come up with a book that reminds us all of the forgotten tragedy. | | | Hochschild takes a tale that once held the world's attention and brings it to life again. | | | Hochschild does an absolutely astonishing job of bringing his characters to life, from Leopold, the Belgian king, to the motley group of human rights advocates who fight him on the world stage. |
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http://www.exn.ca/stories/2000/03/13/53.asp
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| | News Brief |
| | Hochschild will be signing copies of his book at the Capitola Book Café later the same evening. | | | Prize-winning author Adam Hochschild to speak March 9 | | | Throughout the book Hochschild draws incisive portraits of the leaders of the anti-slavery movement and those who were against them. |
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http://currents.ucsc.edu/04-05/03-07/brief-hochschild.asp
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| | NPR : ADAM HOCHSCHILD continued |
| | A talk with journalist ADAM HOCHSCHILD about the Belgian King who regarded the Congo as his own personal domain, robbing the region of it's natural resources, and killing off half the population. | | | HOCHSCHILD's new book is "King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa." That and more coming up on the next Fresh Air. | | | Fresh Air from WHYY, September 9, 1998 · ADAM HOCHSCHILD continued. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1110312
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| | Dictators' ghosts haunt Congo vote, says author - Boston.com |
| | In "King Leopold's Ghost," Hochschild details the Belgian monarch's genocidal activities in his African fiefdom, which he seized in the 1880s with an eye on its rubber and ivory. | | | A chronicler of human rights movements which often had modest roots, Hochschild said individuals could make huge differences in the course of history. | | | Mobutu was the classic model of the kleptocratic dictator," said Hochschild, referring to the man who ruled the nation, then named Zaire, until his overthrow in 1997. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2006/04/07/dictators_ghosts_haunt_congo_vote_says_author?mode=PF
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| | AfricaSpeaks.com - Belgium's imperialist rape of Africa |
| | The British Independent newspaper's review calls Hochschild's comparisons to contemporary imperialism "unhelpful." But it is such contemporary resonances that place King Leopold's Ghostabove a routine historical work. | | | One example from the introduction: "...unlike other great predators of history, from Genghis Khan to the Spanish conquistadors, King Leopold II never saw a drop of blood spilt in anger. | | | heroism in colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild, Macmillan, 1998 |
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| | Adam Hochschild - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Hochschild's books have been translated into twelve languages. | | | Hochschild's first book was a memoir, Half the Way Home: a Memoir of Father and Son (1986), in which he described the difficult relationship he had with his father. | | | He is married to Arlie Hochschild, the famous sociologist. |
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| | Campus Honors Program - Fall Convocation 2001 |
| | "Adam Hochschild, is a prize-winning historian whose 1998 book King Leopold's Ghost, was a nonfiction best-seller, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a selection on many lists of the best and most notable books of the year. | | | Lecture followed by Q/A session with Adam Hochschild. | | | We are pleased about the positive response to Adam Hochschild's book--many copies have been picked up from the office. |
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http://www.honors.uiuc.edu/convocation/fall2001.html
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| | Granta: Adam Hochschild |
| | Adam Hochschild is the author of five books. | | | His next, a history of the early British antislavery movement, will be published later this year. |
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| | Powell's Books - Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild |
| | It's a brilliantly told tale, at once horrifying and pleasurable to read. | | | Powell's Books - Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild | | | And he refuses to make saints out of the activists; while highlighting bravery in the face of death threats and physical violence by promoters of slavery, the author equally points out their foibles and failings, and the often ironic unintended consequences of their actions. |
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| | Latest Recommended Reading List |
| | King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild (genre: NON-FICTION) |
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| | Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin - Adam Hochschild |
| | The book's leitmotiv becomes a question they all ask: "Why are you interested?" Maybe, however, as Hochschild appears to suspect, the truer legacy is embodied in those he sought to meet but who would not or could not bring themselves to talk. | | | 10/28/2006 8:47:56 PM Foreign Affairs - Book Review - The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin - Adam Hochschild | | | Most of his contacts seemed to deal with it as they had with the original event: some with ongoing denial, some with remarkable stalwartness, even humor, and some with a shrug. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books Review Review: Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild |
| | Adam Hochschild's acclaimed account of the Belgian Congo, King Leopold's Ghost, told the tale of one of most terrible abuses of human rights: the theft of a vast country and the killing of between five and eight million of its inhabitants. | | | Hochschild concludes with a debate on who did most to end the sordid trade in human beings. | | | Now, in Bury the Chains, he brings us the story of the most successful episodes of human rights activism, relating how, in just a few years at the end of the 18th century, a small group of men (and one woman) took on the vested interests of state, church and big business - and won. |
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http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1410155,00.html
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| | Teachable Moment - |
| | Adam Hochschild takes on another piece of the history of slavery in his book King Leopold's Ghost, published in 1999. | | | The people who made the connections were ordinary people like Thomas Clarkson, a onetime divinity student; Olaudah Equino, a former slave living in England who became a renowned public speaker and whose autobiography was widely influential; Granville Sharp and Elizabeth Heyrick, expert pamphleteers, and a host of Quakers. | | | Here, Hochschild tells the monstrous story of how, beginning in the 1880s, King Leopold II of Belgium seized as his personal fiefdom a huge territory surrounding the Congo River. |
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http://www.teachablemoment.org/ideas/hochschildbooks.html
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| | King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa |
| | Under his rule, which he tried to depict as beneficial to the natives (bringing the savages the ennobling light of civilization, the typical Victoriam delusions), a sadistic form of slavery was the order of the day. | | | This is a chilling book, written as an indictment without a single false step. | | | Hochschild's fine book of historical inquiry, which draws heavily on eyewitness accounts of the colonialists' savagery, brings this little-studied episode in European and African history into new light. |
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http://www.textbooksrus.com/search/bookdetail?isbn=0618001905
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| | Saint Mary's College Presents: Adam Hochschild |
| | A talk, slide show, and book presentation by journalist and popular historian Adam Hochschild. | | | Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost," the critically acclaimed book about the Belgian Congo. | | | He will be presenting his new book, "Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves," which is about the abolitionist movement in England. |
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http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/news_events/events/030705_hochschild.html
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| | Nieman Watchdog > Showcase > 'Bury the Chains,' by Adam Hochschild |
| | A new book, “Bury the Chains,” by Adam Hochschild, extols citizen activism in the abolitionist movement in England two centuries ago -- and calls attention to the crucial role played by watchdog-style reporting in creating a public awareness of the evils of slavery. | | | Hochschild, a co-founder of Mother Jones, has written award-winning books as well as magazine and newspaper articles. | | | Nieman Watchdog > Showcase > 'Bury the Chains,' by Adam Hochschild |
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http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Showcase.view&showcaseid=0010
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| | The Holocaust in the Congo will be explored in this year's Holocaust Memorial Lecture |
| | Hochschild's talk will be based on his acclaimed book, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998). | | | Prior to that work, Hochschild was a writer/editor for Ramparts magazine and was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle. | | | In it Hochschild brings to light a little-known history that became one of the worst holocausts of our time, causing the loss of five to eight million African lives in the Belgium king's pursuit for rubber and money. |
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| | WAR OR PEACE? / The U.S. is looking for an excuse to fight |
| | San Francisco writer Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost," "Finding the Trapdoor" and other books. | | | Unlike the earlier generations stampeded into war by the Maine and Gulf of Tonkin incidents, we'd be better off detecting such lies when they are made instead of years later. | | | Get up to 50% off home delivery of the Chronicle for 12 weeks! |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/01/19/IN201190.DTL
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| | WilliamWilberforce - Raymond Yee's Wiki |
| | Slaves had rebelled throughout history, "but the campaign in England was something never seen before," writes Adam Hochschild. | | | It intrigues me that Adam Hochschild will be talking about a subject for which my slim knowledge comes almost entirely from one article (which has meant a lot to me): | | | Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin; 467 pages; $26.95): The abolitionist movement in 18th century Britain marked an unprecedented shift in civil society. |
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| | Against All Odds |
| | The most recent of his five books, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. | | | Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." | | | Adam Hochschild is a writer and a founding editor of Mother Jones. |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2004/01/12_403.html
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| | Thomas Ford Memorial Library |
| | Best Books of 2005: Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild | | | Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild is a detailed account of the British Abolitionist Movement and the men and women who campaigned to free the slaves of the West Indies. | | | More than thirty years before the United States fought a bloody civil war over the issue of slavery (and other issues), Great Britain abolished first the slave trade and then later slavery in its empire. |
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| | The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Contributor: What's in a Word? Torture |
| | Adam Hochschild is the author of "King Leopold's Ghost" and the forthcoming "Bury the Chains," a history of the British antislavery movement. | | | Those scars will be with us for a long time. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/23/opinion/23HOCH.html?ex=1400644800&en=4590cf2f07efe289&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND
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| | AfricaSpeaks.com - African Books |
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| | Amnesty Magazine |
| | Adam Hochschild's most recent books are King Leopold's Ghost and Finding the Trapdoor. | | | The world could help by stopping the trade in arms and conflict minerals. | | | The death toll in this bewilderingly complex civil war has reached at least 3.3 million in less than five years, according to the International Rescue Committee. |
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| | Etude Spring 2005 Q&A: Adam Hochschild |
| | Your wife is also a writer (Arlie Russell Hochschild, sociologist and author of The Time Bind : When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work). | | | Hochschild lives in San Francisco and teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. | | | His most recent book, Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, builds on themes from his earlier writings about slavery and civil rights. |
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http://etude.uoregon.edu/spring2005/hochschild
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| | The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remeber Stalin:Hochschild, Adam:0618257470:eCampus.com |
| | Although some twenty million people died during Stalin"s reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. | | | The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin. | | | In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. |
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http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0618257470
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| | Bury the Chains books : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY |
| | For his superb account of the British antislavery movement of the late 18th century, Adam Hochschild draws from poetry, songs, pamphlets, diaries, and best-selling autobiographies. | | | But he never lets exhaustive research clutter up a witty, wonderfully readable narrative. |
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http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/book/0,6115,1015121_5_0_,00.html
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| | NPR : 'Bury the Chains': Britain's End to Slave Trade |
| | NPR's Tony Cox talks with Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves, about that moment in British history and the impact it had on the emancipation movement in America. | | | But few know that seminal event came decades after Britain had already cut its ties to the slave trade. |
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4469760
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| | Memoirs Of A Revolutionary Serge, Victor/ Sedgwick, Peter (trn)/ Hochschild, Adam (frw)/ Hampl, Patricia (edt)/ Klaus, Carl H (edt)- Textbook - Bookbyte.com | | | Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Serge, Victor/ Sedgwick, Peter (TRN)/ Hochschild, Adam (FRW)/ Hampl, Patricia (EDT)/ Klaus, Carl H. by Serge, Victor Sedgwick, Peter (TRN) Hochschild, Adam (FRW) Hampl, Patricia (EDT) Klaus, Carl H. Online Textbook |
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