Jules Marchal

Jules Marchal (1924 - 21 June 2003) was a Belgian diplomat and historian, who wrote extensively on the history of colonial exploitation in the Belgian Congo.  Originally writing in Dutch, under the pseudonym A. M. Delathuy, he later published studies in French under his own name.  Adam Hochschild, in his bestselling King Leopold's Ghost, praised Marchal's work as "the best scholarly overview by far, encyclopedic in scope". 

Works
 (as A. M. Delathuy) E. D. Morel tegen Leopold II en de Kongostaat, 1985
 (as A. M. Delathuy) Jezuïeten in Kongo met zwaard en kruis, 1986
 (as A. M. Delathuy) De Kongostaat van Leopold II : het verloren paradijs, 1876-1900, 1988
 (as A. M. Delathuy) De Geheime documentatie van de Onderzoekscommissie in de Kongostaat, 1988
 (as A. M. Delathuy) Missie en staat in Oud-Kongo, 1880-1914: witte paters, scheutisten en jezuïeten, 1992
 L'Etat libre du Congo: paradis perdu: l'histoire du Congo 1876-1900, 2 vols.,  1996. 
 E.D. Morel contre Léopold II: l'histoire du Congo, 1900-1910, 2 vols, 1996. 
 Forced labor in the gold and copper mines: a history of Congo under Belgian rule, 1910-1945, Popenguine, Senegal: Per Ankh, 2003.  Translated by Ayi Kwei Armah from the French Travail forcé pour le cuivre et pour l'or, 1999. 
 Lord Leverhulme's ghosts: colonial exploitation in the Congo, London: Verso, 2008.  Translated by Martin Thom from the French Travail forcé pour l'huile de palme de Lord Leverhulme.  Introduction by Adam Hochschild. 

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Category:1924 births
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Category:Belgian diplomats
Category:Belgian historians
Category:Historians of Africa
Category:20th-century historians