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Barbara Emerson

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Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Barbara Emerson

Role
  
Biographer


Alma mater
  
St. Hilda's College, Oxford

Occupation
  
Historian and Biographer

Notable work
  
Leopold II of the Belgians: King of Colonialism

Education
  
St Hilda's College, Oxford

Books
  
Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques

Dr. Barbara Emerson is an English historian and biographer, known for her biography of King Leopold II of Belgium. She is also a fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Emerson received her degree from St Hilda's College, Oxford where she later taught.

She was highly critical of Adam Hochschild's book King Leopold's Ghost, rebuking it in The Guardian as "a very shoddy piece of work."

Works

  • Barbara Emerson, Leopold II of the Belgians: King of Colonialism, (1979)
  • References

    Barbara Emerson Wikipedia