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• Questions should be answered in a number format with paragraph responses. (You must retype all the questions preceding your response.) Single spaced 3 pages. This includes adding the questions before the response.
• Bibliography and footnotes are not necessary as this is not a research paper. Direct examples and quotes from the textbooks must be cited, but you will use the following simplified format (Hochschild, pg 121). I’m looking for lots of specific citations throughout your paper which will show me you read the book. Both the number of citations and the breadth of those citations will factor in your grade.
Paper should demonstrate:
• Complete grasp of King Leopold’s Ghost evidenced by many SPECIFIC examples with page number citations drawn from different parts of the book. THE MORE THE BETTER.
• Clearly organized, well written, free of major spelling and grammatical errors, and following the specified format.
• Do NOT contain outside information only from the book.
Questions:
1. Hochschild writes that Leopold “found a number of tools at his disposal that had not been available to empire builders of earlier times.” Explain the role of the Industrial Revolution in the Colonization of Africa, both in terms of means and motives. (Railroads, machine guns, quinine medicines, steamboats, ivory, rubber boom, etc) What impact did new technologies, new economic systems, and economic ideologies; have on colonial or subject peoples? Explain all these factors with specific examples from the book and be sure to explain “New Imperialism,” which is the context of the story.
2. Between 1880 and 1920, the population of the Congo was slashed in half: some ten million people were victims of Leopold’s Empire. This is the same number of people killed by the Nazis during WW2. Explain the various factors why this massive carnage became virtually unknown in the United States and Europe. Who gets to write histories we know and why? In what specific ways was the history of the Congo erased from public memory? Particularly consider the marginalization of African Voices and records.
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