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

LIBRA DT658.22.L85 G47 2015
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Gerard, E. (Emmanuel), author.
Kuklick, Bruce, 1941- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961--Assassination.
Lumumba, Patrice.
Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961.
International relations.
Assassination.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
Congo (Democratic Republic).
History.
Belgium--Foreign relations--Congo (Democratic Republic).
Belgium.
Democratic Republic of the Congo--Foreign relations--Belgium.
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
United Nations--Congo (Democratic Republic).
United Nations.
Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961.
Hammarskjöld, Dag.
Democratic Republic of the Congo--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Congo (Democratic Republic).
United States.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1960-1997.
Politics and government.
Diplomatic relations.
Political science.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:
xiii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780674725270
0674725271
OCLC:
875999924

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