All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
In Canada, the U.S. and most of Europe it may be easy to take political stands, this is something for which you… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“those who made the greatest fortunes from the Scramble for Africa, like Leopold, were often men who had fortunes to begin with.” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The lust for slave profits engulfed even some of the priests, who abandoned their preaching, took black women as concubines, kept slaves themselves, and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
All of us living in today's world are facing an enormous crisis - arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced - in the… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island. Aldrich, a multimillionaire, a card-playing partner of J. Pierpont Morgan, the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The very people who are most ardent against entangling alliances insist most fanatically upon our doing one hundred things a year on humanitarian grounds. . . .” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“When Leopold wrote that the precise frontiers of the new state or states would be defined later, [German Chancellor] Bismarck said to an aide,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Compared with how we've ducked it in the United States, Canada should be really proud of how you have welcomed a significant number of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“There was nothing inherently wrong with colonialism, he felt, if its administration was fair and just. He” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“We run the risk of someday seeing our native population collapse and disappear,” fretfully declared the permanent committee of the National Colonial Congress of… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
