Jules Marchal: Difference between revisions

'''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 language|Dutch]], under the pseudonym '''A. M. Delathuy''', he later published studies in [[French language|French]] under his own name.<ref name="Lévai2006">{{cite book|author=Guy Vanthemsche|editor=Csaba Lévai|title=Europe and the world in European historiography|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=s4gWAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=18 April 2013|year=2006|publisher=PLUS-Pisa University Press|isbn=978-88-8492-403-2|page=103|chapter=The historiography of Belgian colonialism in the Congo}}</ref> [[Adam Hochschild]], in his bestselling ''[[King Leopold's Ghost]]'', praised Marchal's work as "the best scholarly overview by far, encyclopedic in scope".<ref name="Nzongola-Ntalaja2002">{{cite book|author=Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja|title=The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History|url=httphttps://books.google.com/books?id=qqWIvIAe2h4C&pg=PA56|accessdate=18 April 2013|date=3 May 2002|publisher=Zed Books|isbn=978-1-84277-053-5|page=56}}</ref>