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Barbara Emerson

Barbara Emerson

English historian and biographer

Barbara Emerson is an English historian and biographer, known for her biography of King Leopold II of Belgium. She was also a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.[1]

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Emerson received her degree in PPE from St Hilda's College, Oxford where she later taught.[2]

She was highly critical of Adam Hochschild's book King Leopold's Ghost, rebuking it in The Guardian as "a very shoddy piece of work."[3]

Works

  • The Black Prince (1976)
  • Leopold II of the Belgians: King of Colonialism (1979)
  • Paul Delvaux (1985)

References

  1. [1]
    "ยป Author Bios Advanced Historical Method 304". Blogs.dickinson.edu. 22 September 2010. Archived from the original on 14 December 2012. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  2. [2]
    ""The memory of Congo : the colonial era"". Oxfordandcambridge.be. 2 October 2005. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  3. [3]
    Bates, Stephen (13 May 1999). "The Hidden Holocaust". The Guardian.


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