King Leopold's Ghost tells a story of the Belgian King Leopold II and his misrule of an African colony, named (at the time) the Congo Free State. It is a wild and ... he paid mercenaries, but in 1888 these were transformed into the "Force Publique" and at it's peak there were members of 19,000 conscripted African soldiers and 420 white officers. The soldiers were slaves who had been press-ganged through hostage taking, or stolen as children and brought up in child colonies founded by Leopold and the Catholic Church ... hold them until the men agreed to whatever demands were made of them. Disci...

• Word Count: 2087
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Cambodian society is a difficult task due to the fact that past statistics were unavailable and no bookkeeping or monetary transactions had been recorded. Phnom Penh effectively turned out to be a ghost city consisting of around 32,000 individuals in 1978 compared to the initial 457,000 individuals in 1970 as the majority of the urban population migrated to the country to ... government did not reach the day to day ration of 570 grams/person, causing major discord in the population. This major failure of government caused major disparity as factory workers, soldiers, and party leaders r...

• Word Count: 1843
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate