Finished Off by Chagrin
Michael Ledger-Lomas: Monarchs and Emperors, 21 July 2022
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World
by Edward Shawcross.
Faber, 336 pp., £20, January,978 0 571 36057 4 Show More
by Edward Shawcross.
Faber, 336 pp., £20, January,
King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the 19th Century
by Andrew Fitzmaurice.
Princeton, 592 pp., £35, February,978 0 691 14869 4 Show More
by Andrew Fitzmaurice.
Princeton, 592 pp., £35, February,
The Kaiser and the Colonies: Monarchy in the Age of Empire
by Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Oxford, 416 pp., £90, February,978 0 19 289703 9 Show More
by Matthew Fitzpatrick.
Oxford, 416 pp., £90, February,
“... craving for wealth and power, Leopold wanted to be a despot, not a minor constitutional king. Andrew Fitzmaurice deepens our understanding of the deviousness with which he created a colony in the Congo to funnel the profits of mass murder not to Belgium but to Leopold himself. Leopold knew that Belgium’s free-trading parliament would not tolerate ... ”
