Exterminate All the Brutes: One Man's Odyssey Into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1565843592 ISBN13: 9781565843592 Release Date: January 1997 Publisher: New Press Length: 192 Pages Weight: 0.55 lbs. Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.2" Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, "Exterminate All the Brutes" is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe's genocidal colonization of Africa--and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned "A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist's astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful." --David Levering Lewis "Exterminate All the Brutes," Sven Lindqvist's widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe's dark history in Africa and the origins of genoci