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Death in the Congo : murdering Patrice Lumumba / Emmanuel Gerard, Bruce Kuklick.
LIBRA DT658.22.L85 G47 2015
Available from offsite location
- 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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