King Leopold's Ghostwriter : : The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century / / Andrew Fitzmaurice.
A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free StateEminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (592 p.) :; 23 b/w illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part 1. Travers Twiss
- Part 2. Metternich
- Part 3. Agnes Willoughby and Pharaïlde van Lynseele
- Part 4. King Leopold and the Congo
- Part 5. Civil Death
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- A Note on the Type