{"id":1366,"date":"2021-12-02T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2021-11-30T10:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T10:52:47","slug":"new-book-by-prof-andrew-fitzmaurice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/2021\/12\/02\/new-book-by-prof-andrew-fitzmaurice\/","title":{"rendered":"New book by Prof. Andrew Fitzmaurice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice&#8217;s <em>King Leopold&#8217;s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century\u00a0<\/em>(Princeton University Press) \u2013 an intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please click <a href=\"https:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/books\/hardcover\/9780691148694\/king-leopolds-ghostwriter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/9780691148694.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1367\" src=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/9780691148694.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/9780691148694.jpeg 410w, https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2021\/11\/9780691148694-201x300.jpeg 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Professor Andrew Fitzmaurice&#8217;s King Leopold&#8217;s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century\u00a0(Princeton University Press) \u2013 an intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State. For more information, please click [&#8230;] <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/2021\/12\/02\/new-book-by-prof-andrew-fitzmaurice\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}