Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts

Lord Leverhulme's Ghosts
Author: Jules Marchal
Publisher: Verso Books
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2017-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1784786330

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild In the early twentieth century, the worldwide rubber boom led British entrepreneur 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 labour, a programme that reduced the population of Congo by half and accounted for more deaths than the Nazi Holocaust. In this definitive, meticulously researched history, Jules Marchal exposes the nature of forced labour under Lord Leverhulme’s rule and the appalling conditions imposed upon the people of Congo. With an extensive introduction by Adam Hochschild, Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts is an important and urgently needed account of a laboratory of colonial exploitation.

So Clean

So Clean
Author: Brian Lewis
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780719089138

This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851–1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. So Clean places Lever squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship, using him as an entry-point for contextualized and comparative essays on the history of advertising; on factory paternalism, town planning, the Garden City movement and their ramifications across the twentieth century; and on colonialism and forced labour in the Belgian Congo and the South Pacific. It concludes with a discussion of his extraordinary attempt, in his final years, to transform crofting and fishing in the Outer Hebrides. Written in an engaging and accessible style, So Clean will appeal to academics and students working in business, social, cultural and imperial history.

The Nation

The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 914
Release: 1919
Genre: Current events
ISBN:

The Mirrors of Downing Street

The Mirrors of Downing Street
Author: Harold Begbie
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2022-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Mirrors of Downing Street" (Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster) by Harold Begbie. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.