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Adam Hochschild was born in New York City.His father, Harold Hochschild, was of German Jewish descent; his mother, Mary Marquand Hochschild, was of English and Scottish descent and the daughter of pioneering art historian Allan Marquand, and an uncle by marriage, Boris Sergievsky, was a World War I fighter pilot in the Imperial Russian Air Force.
Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on March 29, 2016. [1] [2] The book is an account of the American volunteers who participated in the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939. The story centers around several American ...
Hochschild gave the results a partly favorable review. [ 6 ] Also in 2005, the American and British publishers of King Leopold's Ghost reissued the book with a new afterword [ 7 ] by Hochschild in which he talks about the reactions to the book, the death toll, and events in the Congo since its publication.
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves is a non-fiction book by Adam Hochschild that was first published by Houghton Mifflin on January 7, 2005. [1] The book is a narrative history of the late 18th- and early 19th-century anti-slavery movement in the British Empire . [ 4 ]
Hochschild is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Adam Hochschild (born 1942), American writer; grandson of Berthold and son of Harold K.; husband of Arlie Russell; Arlie Russell Hochschild, American sociologist; wife of Adam; Berthold Hochschild (1860–1928), German-born American businessman; father of Harold K.
Adam Hochschild posits that this anti-slavery movement is the first peaceful social movement which all modern social movements are built upon. [2] A number of the founders had been meeting at George Yard since 1783, and over four years grew their circle of friends to include Thomas Clarkson, an unknown at that time.
Jul. 1—When Rob Hochschild started volunteering at Santa Fe Community College's KSFR radio station in the fall, he wasn't angling for a full-time position. But that's what the East Coast native ...
The historian Adam Hochschild argued that the dramatic fall in the Free State population was the result of a combination of "murder", "starvation, exhaustion and exposure", "disease" and "a plummeting birth rate". [61] Sleeping sickness was also a major cause of fatality at the time.