Death in the Congo : murdering Patrice Lumumba / Emmanuel Gerard, Bruce Kuklick.

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Gerard, E. (Emmanuel) [Author]

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TextSeries: De Gruyter eBook-Paket GeschichtePublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

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9780674735729

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DT658 .D438 2015

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Contents:

Independence -- The empire strikes back -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN -- The government falls -- Mobutu -- Africans against Lumumba -- The Central Intelligence Agency -- The return of the Belgians -- Lumumba imperiled -- Killing Lumumba -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on sources.

Subject: More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people--black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American--bear responsibility for this crime.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

The Congo of the Belgians -- Independence -- The empire strikes back -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN -- The government falls -- Mobutu -- Africans against Lumumba -- The Central Intelligence Agency -- The return of the Belgians -- Lumumba imperiled -- Killing Lumumba -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on sources.

More than 50 years later the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Patrice Lumumba's assassination trouble people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick reveal a tangled web of international politics in which many people--black and white, well-meaning or ruthless, African, European, and American--bear responsibility for this crime.