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Author:

Gerard, E. (Emmanuel), author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Subject:

Lumumba, Patrice,--1925-1961--Assassination.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--Civil War, 1960-1965.
Belgium--Foreign relations--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Foreign relations--Belgium.
United Nations--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Hammarskj©œld, Dag,--1905-1961.
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Foreign relations--United States.
United States--Foreign relations--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Congo (Democratic Republic)--Politics and government--1960-1997.
Hammarskj©œld, Dag,--1905-1961.
Lumumba, Patrice,--1925-1961.
United Nations.
Civil War (Congo : 1960-1965)
Assassination.
Diplomatic relations.
Political science.
Belgium.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
United States.
1960 - 1997
History.

Other Authors:

Kuklick, Bruce, 1941- author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Congo of the Belgians -- Independence -- The empire strikes back -- The Cold War comes to Africa -- Dag Hammarskj©œld 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.

ISBN:

0674725271
9780674725270

OCLC:

(OCoLC)875999924

LCCN:

2014015902

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)