Great book. Highly recommended to social justice movement practitioners, including animal rights activists. Learn about corrupting power and how to fight against it by reading about the history of the ivory and rubber trade in what was then known as the Congo.
King Leopold’s Ghost
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild (Mariner Books, 1998)
In this section:
- A Journey in Ladakh by Andrew Harvey
- A Life for Animals by Christine Townend
- About A Son by David Whitehouse
- Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra
- All About Love by bell hooks
- Animal Ethics: the basics by Tony Milligan
- Azadi by Arundhati Roy
- Beastly by Keggie Carew
- Beef by Andrew Rimas and Evan D.G. Fraser
- Bleating Hearts by Mark Hawthorne
- Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic
- Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
- Call of the Cats by Andrew Bloomfield
- Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
- Empathy by Roman Krznaric
- Even Vegans Die by Carol J Adams, Patti Breitman and Virginia Messina
- Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill
- Keep Talking: A Broadcasting Life by David Dimbleby
- King Leopold’s Ghost
- Laika by Nick Abadzis
- Love Notes by Philip McKibbin
- Love Soup by Anna Thomas
- Makers and Manners by Andrew Holden
- Model Animal Welfare Act by Janice Cox and Sabine Lennkh
- Mortality by Christopher Hitchens
- Moti: An Indian Elephant
- Nim Chimpsky by Elizabeth Hess
- No Time to Lose by Pema Chodron
- On Editing by Helen Corner-Bryant and Kathryn Price
- On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
- Orlando by Virginia Woolf
- Pets in America by Katherine C. Grier
- Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq
- Please Take Me Home by Clare Campbell
- Ruth Plant by Jenny Remfrey
- Second Nature by Jonathan Balcombe
- Soondar Mooni by E. O. Shebbeare
- Story Craft by Jack Hart
- Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
- The Animal Ethics Reader and Social Creatures
- The Animals’ Vegan Manifesto by Sue Coe
- The Chernobyl Privileges by Alex Lockwood
- The Elephant Conspiracy by Peter Hain
- The End of Eddy by Edouard Louis
- The Face on Your Plate by Jeffrey Masson
- The Four Loves by C S Lewis
- The Great Cat & Dog Massacre by Hilda Kean
- The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh
- The Honor Code by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- The Inner Life of Cats by Thomas McNamee
- The Lion in the Living Room by Abigail Tucker
- The New Wild by Fred Pearce
- The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
- The Pig in Thin Air by Alex Lockwood
- The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
- The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Scarlett & Sophie Rickard
- The Whale Warriors by Peter Heller
- The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
- The Wildings by Nilanjana Roy
- Tiger Work by Ben Okri
- To the River by Olivia Laing
- Topsy by Michael Daly
- Walking With Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne
- Zooicide: Seeing Cruelty, Demanding Abolition by Sue Coe and Stephen Eisenman