Overview

Over twenty years ago, Sven Lindqvist, one of the great pioneers of a new kind of experiential history writing, set out across Central Africa. Obsessed with a single line from Conrad's The Heart of Darkness - Kurtz's injunction to 'Exterminate All the Brutes' - he braided an account of his experiences with a profound historical investigation, revealing to the reader with immediacy and cauterizing force precisely what Europe's imperial powers had exacted on Africa's people over the course of the preceding two centuries. Shocking, humane, crackling with imaginative energies and moral purpose, Exterminate All the Brutes stands as an impassioned, timeless classic. It is essential reading for anybody ready to come to terms with the brutal, racist history on which Europe built its wealth.

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Author:   Sven Lindqvist
Publisher:   Granta Books
Imprint:   Granta Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.10cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.270kg
ISBN:  

9781847081988

ISBN 10:   1847081983
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   04 October 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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This book is important ... we, our rulers, and their stooges should read it ... it contains a message for our future -- Nicholas Lezard * Guardian * Here is a book which has come out of risk and years of thought -- John Berger This powerful book has haunted me for months * Sunday Times * Sven Lindqvist [was] one of the most original and imaginative authors working at the end of the twentieth century. Together with Bruce Chatwin and Claudio Magris, he has pioneered a genre where to travel in space is also to travel in time. -- Richard Gott Exemplary * Independent * This book should be school curriculum material * New Internationalist *

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Sven Lindqvist was born in Stockholm in 1932 and has travelled extensively through Asia, Africa and Latin America.

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