Reviews tagging 'Genocide'

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild

22 reviews

mondovertigo's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Murder, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cannibalism, and War

common_household_mom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, Suicide, Violence, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

the_tridentarii's review against another edition

dark informative sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Slavery, and Colonisation

Moderate: Homophobia

gnome_tomes's review against another edition

dark informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Genocide, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, Colonisation, and War

alexijai98's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Genocide, Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Colonisation, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

demonxore's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

3.5

This book was a good introduction to the atrocities of colonial Congo, but I feel like it is incomplete with regard to how historical events set the stage for perpetuated strife in the region. The ending feels rushed and loosely strung together. Hopefully there is another book out there that picks up where this leaves off. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Genocide, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Trafficking, Cannibalism, Murder, Cultural appropriation, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic

kvitlin's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Colonisation

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Cannibalism

rosemaryandrue's review against another edition

dark emotional informative medium-paced

5.0

At the end of the nineteenth century, King Leopold II of Belgium maneuvered his way into control of the Congo, destroying the region and its people in his quest to extract all and any profit he could from it.

I knew the story of Leopold and the Congo, but only its vague outlines. This book fills in the image in a horribly vivid fashion. Extensively researched and well-written, it made me queasy with the kinds of things people are able to do to each other, and depressed that I never really disbelieved that we were capable of it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Racism, Violence, and Colonisation

riverofpages's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Death, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Excrement, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Colonisation, and War

remytherat's review

informative slow-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Genocide, Racism, Slavery, and Colonisation

Moderate: Child death, Fatphobia, and Murder