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1	King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa more books like this by Adam Hochschild First published in 1999, Hochschild provides a riveting account of the Congo massacres, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. This exemplary piece of history writing gives the facts that caused those atrocities. see all copies from $3.57! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves more books like this by Adam Hochschild Adam Hochschild's study of the Atlantic slave trade examines the breadth and depth of this institution in the British Empire, its role in the English economy, and the efforts of many who worked strenuously, over decades, to change it. Hochschild makes clear the devastations of slavery, underscoring how humans were considered to be disposable ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	King Leopold's ghost. more books like this by Adam Hochschild In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, they were filled with valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is, except soldiers, military supplies and ... see all copies from $10.53! new only from $10.53! \| first editions
4	The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin more books like this by Adam Hochschild Stalin's quarter-century rule in the USSR left 20 million people dead. In the late 1930s, during the height of the terror, one out of every eight Soviet citizens was shot or sent to a concentration camp. This study examines how people recover from such a repressive regime. It talks to prison survivors, writers and retired camp guards. It visits ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Half the Way Home: A Memoir of Father and Son more books like this by Adam Hochschild "An extraordinarily moving portrait of the complexities and confusions of familial love". -- The New York Times "His story is fascinating, and the portrait of lost childhood offered here evokes one of the archetypal dreams of the American mind". -- E. L. Doctorow see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| first editions
6	Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels more books like this by Adam Hochschild "Whether you are a general reader looking to be transported to other times and places or a student trying to unlock the mysteries of how good non-fiction is written, (Finding the Trapdoor) is something rare". -- Orville Schell, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley For some thirty years, Adam Hochschild has been ... see all copies from $5.42! new only from $16.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey more books like this by Adam Hochschild History lies heavily on South Africa, and Adam Hochschild brings to bear a lifetime's familiarity with the country in an eye-opening work that blends history and reportage. Hochschild looks at the tensions of modern South Africa through a dramatic prism: the pivotal nineteenth-century Battle of Blood River -- which determined whether the Boers or ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.29! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Unquiet Ghost: 2russians Remember Stalin more books like this by Adam Hochschild Stalin's rule over Russia left some 20 million people dead and, in the 35 years since his death, no one would openly write or talk about his vast self-inflicted genocide. With the advent of glasnost, journalist Hochschild explores how Russians today are healing the wounds from an avalanche of long-repressed memories. Photos. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
9	Half the Way Home more books like this by Adam Hochschild see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.40! \| first editions
10	Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts: Colonial Exploitation in the Congo more books like this by Jules Marchal, Adam Hochschild (Introduction by) In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British enterpreneur Lord Leverhulme to the Belgian Congo. Warmly welcomed by the murderous regime of King Leopold II, Leverhulme set up a private kingdom reliant on the horrific Belgian system of forced labor, a program that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for ... see all copies from $12.70! new only from $12.70! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The mirror at midnight : a journey to the heart of South Africa more books like this by Adam Hochschild Journalist Adam Hochschild returned to South Africa for the 150th anniversary of the Great Boer Trek of 1838, a major event in South Africa's history. In the book he alternates short historical narratives on the events then, with observations on contemporary South Africa. see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
12	Half the Way Home more books like this by Adam Hochchild, Adam Hochschild see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.95! \| first editions
13 view cover	Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer more books like this by Boris Sergievsky, Allan Forsyth (Editor), Adam Hochschild (Editor) Boris Sergievsky's life of high adventure began when he fought as a Russian infantry officer and fighter pilot against Austria-Hungary during WWI, and against the Red Army after the Bolshevik revolution. In 1923, he came to the U.S. and joined Igor Sikorsky's airplane company as chief test pilot. Over the next ten years, Pan American Airways ... see all copies from $7.99! new only from $25.67! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The Mirror at Midnight: 2a South African Journey more books like this by Adam Hochschild Hochschild deftly illuminates present-day South Africa by exploring the turmoin of its past. An incisive, provocative journey to the heart of a country clinging to its history, yet bound inexorably for change. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $65.79! \| first editions
15 view cover	Adirondack Faces more books like this by Mathias T Oppersdorff, Adam Hochschild (Designer), Alice Wolf Gilborn (Text by) This is a collection of 53 portraits of inhabitants of the Adirondack landscape, one of the largest and last wilderness areas in the United States to be discovered. The pictures are accompanied by the subjects' own words, capturing the essence of life in this region. see all copies from $3.65! first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Mirror at Midnight: 3a South African Journey more books like this by Adam Hochschild see all copies from $2.95! new only from $99.00!
17	Deadly Defense: Military Radioactive Landfills: A Citizen Guide more books like this by Adam Hochschild (Designed by), Radioactive Waste Campaign, Dana Coyle see all copies from $7.59!
18	Schatten üBer Dem Kongo by Adam Hochschild see all copies from $56.83! new only from $56.83!
19	Enterrad La Cadenas by Adam Hochschild see all copies from $47.24! new only from $47.25!
20	Half the Way Home Counter Display by Adam Hochschild see all copies from $9.98!
21	Sprengt Die Ketten by Adam; Spengler Hochschild, Ute see all copies from $56.81! new only from $56.81!

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