Death in the Congo : murdering Patrice Lumumba / Emmanuel Gerard, Bruce Kuklick.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 0674735722
- 9780674735729
- 9780674725270
- 0674725271
- 9780674745360
- 0674745361
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961 -- Assassination
- Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961
- United Nations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Hammarskjöld, Dag, 1905-1961
- Lumumba, Patrice, 1925-1961
- United Nations
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1960-1965
- Belgium -- Foreign relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Foreign relations -- Belgium
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Foreign relations -- United States
- United States -- Foreign relations -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Politics and government -- 1960-1997
- Congo (République démocratique) -- Histoire -- 1960-1965 (Guerre civile)
- Belgique -- Relations extérieures -- Congo (République démocratique)
- Congo (République démocratique) -- Relations extérieures -- Belgique
- Congo (République démocratique) -- Relations extérieures -- États-Unis
- États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- Congo (République démocratique)
- Congo (République démocratique) -- Politique et gouvernement -- 1960-1997
- HISTORY -- Africa -- Central
- HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century
- Assassination
- Diplomatic relations
- Politics and government
- Belgium
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- United States
- Congolese Civil War (Congo (Democratic Republic) : 1960-1965)
- 1960-1997
- 967.5103/1 23
- DT658.22.L85
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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.
In English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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