King Leopold's Ghostwriter The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century
A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809–1897) was a model establishment figure in Victoria...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford
Princeton University Press
2021, ©2021
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
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