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03200aam a2200421M 4500 001 25D8C31C78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220119010213 008 210420s2021 xx 0|| 0 eng d 020 $a 9780691148694 020 $a 0691148694 035 $a (OCoLC)1246623524 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d TOH $d SILO 050 4 $a DT17-39 100 1 $a FITZMAURICE, ANDREW. 245 10 $a KING LEOPOLD'S GHOSTWRITER : $b the creation of persons and states in the nineteenth century. 260 $a [S.l.] : $b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRES, $c 2021. 300 $a 1 volume : $b illustrations (black and white) ; $c 24 cm 520 8 $a Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Travers Twiss (1809-1897) was a model establishment figure in Victorian Britain, and a close collaborator of Prince Metternich, the architect of the Concert of Europe. Yet Twiss's life was defined by two events that threatened to undermine the order that he had so stoutly defended: a notorious social scandal and the creation of the Congo Free State. In King Leopold's Ghostwriter, Andrew Fitzmaurice tells the incredible story of a man who, driven by personal events that transformed him from a reactionary to a reformer, rewrote and liberalised international law-yet did so in service of the most brutal regime of the colonial era. In an elaborate deception, Twiss and Pharailde van Lynseele, a Belgian prostitute, sought to reinvent her as a woman of suitably noble birth to be his wife. Their subterfuge collapsed when another former client publicly denounced van Lynseele. Disgraced, Twiss resigned his offices and the couple fled to Switzerland. Twiss found new employment as the intellectual driving force of King Leopold of Belgium's efforts to have the Congo recognised as a new state under his personal authority. Drawing on extensive new archival research, King Leopold's Ghostwriter recounts Twiss's story as never before, including how his creation of a new legal personhood for the Congo was intimately related to the earlier invention of a new legal personhood for his wife. 600 10 $a Twiss, Travers, $d 1809-1897 $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000109155613. 600 17 $a Twiss, Travers, $d 1809-1897. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01800121 650 0 $a Lawyers $z England $v Biography. 650 0 $a College teachers $z England $v Biography. 651 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y Victoria, 1837-1901. 651 0 $a Congo (Democratic Republic) $x Politics and government $y 1885-1908. 650 7 $a College teachers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00868114 650 7 $a Lawyers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00994346 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Congo (Democratic Republic) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208723 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1837-1908 $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019011357.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=25D8C31C78F711ECAF30597D2FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search