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  • - A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    av Adam Hochschild
    169 - 175,-

    WINNER OF THE 1999 DUFF COOPER PRIZE. 'Brilliant .. this book must be read and re-read' Neal Ascherson'. 'A hundred years ago, enlightened people in the western world were outraged by a holocaust in Africa which left millions dead. Denunciations thundered from speaker's platforms around the US and Europe. One open letter to The Times was signed by 11 peers, 19 bishops and 75 MPs. Viscount Grey, Britain's foreign secretary, declared that no overseas issue had so intensely aroused the British public for 30 years. Conan Doyle wrote a pamphlet on the Congo atrocities which sold 25,000 copies in the first week alone. Yet today not one person in a thousand could say what the fuss was all about, unless, of course, they have read this amazing book.' Tariq Ali, Financial Times 'Fascinating ... brilliant and gripping' Mail on Sunday 'An exemplary piece of history writing: urgent, vivid and compelling' Literary Review

  • - Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
    av Adam Hochschild
    175,-

    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 rapidly advancing fascism must be halted in Spain; if not there, where? More than 35,000 volunteers from dozens of other countries went to help defend the Spanish Republic.Adam Hochschild, the acclaimed author of King Leopold's Ghost, evokes this tumultuous period mainly through the lives of Americans involved in the war. A few are famous, such as Ernest Hemingway, but others are less familiar. They include a nineteen-year-old Kentucky woman, a fiery leftist who came to wartime Spain on her honeymoon; a young man who ran away from his Pennsylvania college and became the first American casualty in the battle for Madrid; and a swashbuckling Texas oilman who covertly violated US law and sold Generalissimo Francisco Franco most of the fuel for his army. Two New York Times reporters, fierce rivals, covered the war from opposite sides, with opposite sympathies. There are Britons in Hochschild's cast of characters as well: one, a London sculptor, fought with the American battalion; another, who had just gone down from Cambridge, joined Franco's army and found himself fighting against the Americans; and a third is someone whose experience of combat in Spain had a profound effect on his life, George Orwell.

  • - The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery
    av Adam Hochschild
    225,-

    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. 'Hochschild's marvellous book is a timely reminder of what a small group of determined people, with right on their side, can achieve. Carefully researched and elegantly written, with a pacy narrative that ranges from the coffee houses of London to the back-breaking sugar plantations of the West Indies, it charts the unlikely success of the first international human rights movement' Saul David, Literary Review 'Hochschild is such a gifted researcher and story-teller that he never fails to hold the reader's attention. . . 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' Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph 'Thought-provoking, absorbing and well-written' Brendan Simms, Sunday Times 'Stirring and unforgettable' Economist

  • av Adam Hochschild
    277,-

    I 1880-årene, da de europeiske "supermakter" delte opp Afrika, bemektiget Kong Leopold II av Belgia seg det enorme og for det meste uoppdagede territoriet rundt elven Kongo. Han iscenesatte et folkemord og et plyndringstokt uten sidestykke i historien inntil da. Han røvet landet for dets gummi og elfenben, brutaliserte befolkningen, og sist men ikke minst utryddet han 10 millioner av Kongos innbyggere, hele tiden mens han durkdrevent rendyrket sitt omdømme som den store humanist. Heltemodige forsøk på å avsløre disse forbrytelser førte omsider til den første menneskerettighetsbevegelsen i det tyvende århundre, med ulike deltakere fra Mark Twain til erkebiskopen av Canterbury. Med litteraturliste og register.

  • - From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes
    av Hochschild Adam Hochschild
    245 - 428,-

    From the best-selling author of King Leopolds Ghost and Spain in Our Heartscomes 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.

  • av Adam Hochschild
    282,-

    In this rich collection, bestselling author Adam Hochschild has selected and updated over two dozenessaysand 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 show to a Finnish prison, from a Congolese center for rape victims to the ruins of gulag camps in the Soviet Arctic,from a stroll through construction sites with an ecologically pioneering architect in India to a day on the campaign trail with Nelson Mandela. Hochschild also talks about the writers he loves, from Mark Twain to John McPhee, and explores such far-reaching topics as why so much history is badly written, what bookshelves tell us about their owners, and his front-row seat for the shocking revelation in the 1960s that the CIA had been secretly controlling dozens of supposedly independent organizations. With the skills of a journalist, the knowledge of a historian, and the heart of an activist, Hochschild shares the stories of people who took a stand against despotism, spoke out against unjust wars and government surveillance, and dared to dream of a better and more just world.

  • - Essays, Portraits, Travels
    av Adam Hochschild
    281,-

    A collection of magazine articles and literary essays by Hochschild, previously published in 1997.

  • - A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
    av Adam Hochschild
    235,-

    "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 reread." - Los Angeles Times Book Review In the late nineteenth century, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium carried out a brutal plundering of the territory surrounding the Congo River. Ultimately slashing the area's population by ten million, he still managed to shrewdly cultivate his reputation as a great humanitarian. A tale far richer than any novelist could invent, King Leopold's Ghost is the horrifying account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who defied Leopold: African rebel leaders who fought against hopeless odds and a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure but unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust and participants in the twentieth century's first great human rights movement. A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Notable Book

  • - How the First World War Divided Britain
    av Adam Hochschild
    263,-

    A brilliant new history of the First World War by the bestselling and prizewinning author of King Leopold's Ghost and Bury the Chains

  • - America in the New Age of Empire
    av Adam Hochschild, Noam Chomsky, Mike Davis, m.fl.
    360,-

    Suitable for anyone seeking guidance along the highways and byways of our post-9/11 world. This volume features political analysis of topics, including accounts of the two Bush administrations' catastrophic imperial adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq; Guantanamo, rendition and its apologists; and Hurricane Katrina, global warming, and black gold.

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