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Accounts Of 19th-Century Colonialism Read As Brutal Yet Modern Cautionary Tales.
By Gregory McNamee
Exterminate All the Brutes, by Sven Lindqvist (New
Press). Paper, $12.
KING LEOPOLD II of Belgium (1835-1909) was a strange man,
even by the eccentric standards of the royal bloodline that produced
him and his cousins Queen Victoria of England, Kaiser Wilhelm
of Germany, Empress Carlota of Mexico and Tsar Nicholas of Russia.
He was notoriously avaricious, even as a child. He was cruel to
his servants. He hated his wife and daughters, who returned the
favor. Accustomed to having his way at all times, Leopold nonetheless