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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter eBook-Paket GeschichtePublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [(c)2015.]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0674735722
  • 9780674735729
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  • DT658.22.85
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.

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