ASCHERSON Neal

The King Incorporated, Leopold the Second and the Congo

Pb, in-8, 310 pp. With a new introduction (1999) in which A. argues that there is a direct connection between the Katangese secession, the murders on Lumumba and Hammarskjöld, all these events fomented and financed by multinational copper corporations.
This book is an attempt to describe Leopold without prejudice, and he emerges from these pages as an incomparable schemer, the plunderer-king who made wealth on the world as ancient king. Note Lucas Tessens: it is amazing to see that this book, first published in 1963, was translated into Dutch as late as 2002: we have no knowledge of a French translation. The autor pays tribute to Stengers and Roeykens.

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