Historian, Author
Adam Hochschild is an American author, journalist, and lecturer whose work examines human rights, colonialism, and war. His most celebrated book, King Leopold's Ghost, chronicles the exploitation of the Congo and the international campaign that arose in response.
by Adam Hochschild
Hochschild reconstructs King Leopold II's personal plunder of the Congo, where forced rubber extraction killed as many as ten million Africans, and recovers the first modern human rights campaign that exposed it. The book argues that the Congo Free State was a template for twentieth-century mass atrocity, and that the coalition of missionaries, shipping clerks, and journalists who fought it pioneered the tools of transnational activism.
The books Adam Hochschild references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Will Durant
The Durants compress five thousand years of civilisation into sharp observations on recurring patterns in politics, morality, and economics. Human nature ensures history rhymes.
by Jared Diamond
Diamond argues that geography, not racial superiority, explains why some civilizations dominated others. Differences in domesticable plants, animals, and continental axes gave certain societies an insurmountable head start.
Who Adam draws from, and who draws from Adam — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.