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The rise and decline of the Zairian state / Crawford Young, Thomas Turner.

By:

Young, Crawford, 1931-

Contributor(s):

Turner, Thomas, 1939-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [1985]Description: 1 online resource (xix, 500 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780299101138
0299101134
1283991020
9781283991025

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rise and decline of the Zairian state.DDC classification:

967.5/103 22

LOC classification:

DT658.25 .Y68 1985eb

Other classification:

MI 46000
MI 46030

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Contents:

The state in Zaire : an introductory perspective -- Zaire in the Mobutu years : an overview, 1965-1980 -- The state and civil society : capital, town, and countryside -- The dynamics of inequality : class formation -- The ethnic dimension of civil society -- The patrimonial state and personal rule -- In pursuit of legitimacy : party and ideology -- Regional administration -- The seventh scourge : the security forces -- Economic policy during the Mobutu years -- Zairianization and radicalization : anatomy of a disaster -- Zaire in the international arena -- Conclusion : crisis of the Zairian state.

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Summary: Zaire, apparently strong and stable under President Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new state strategically located in Central Africa and rich in mineral resources, did this happen? How did the Zairian state become a "parasitic predator" upon its own people? The authors examine the political history of Mobutu's Zaire, looking at critical structures and patterns of societal flux, inequality, and cleavage, in particular the urban-rural nexus, the problematic of class formation, and the fluid patterns of cultural pluralism.

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Spine title: The rise & decline of the Zairian state.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-468) and index.

Includes index.

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Zaire, apparently strong and stable under President Mobutu in the early 1970s, was bankrupt and discredited by the end of that decade, beset by hyperinflation and mass corruption, the populace forced into abject poverty. Why and how, in a new state strategically located in Central Africa and rich in mineral resources, did this happen? How did the Zairian state become a "parasitic predator" upon its own people? The authors examine the political history of Mobutu's Zaire, looking at critical structures and patterns of societal flux, inequality, and cleavage, in particular the urban-rural nexus, the problematic of class formation, and the fluid patterns of cultural pluralism.

English.

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