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Hardcover King Leopold's Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century Book

ISBN: 0691148694

ISBN13: 9780691148694

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 Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss's life was defined by two...

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