{"product_id":"exterminate-all-the-brutes","title":"Exterminate All The Brutes: One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide","description":"\u003cp\u003eSven Lundqvist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eExterminate All the Brutes\u003c\/em\u003e,”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“Exterminate All the Brutes”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eConquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e“\u003cem\u003eExterminate All the Brutes\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41303449731106,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/1509\/8658\/files\/619jjk0uA6L._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1706033820","url":"https:\/\/vaholocaust.myshopify.com\/products\/exterminate-all-the-brutes","provider":"Virginia Holocaust Museum Shop \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}