Death in the Congo : : Murdering Patrice Lumumba / / Emmanuel Gerard.
Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the...
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Gerard, Emmanuel, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Death in the Congo : Murdering Patrice Lumumba / Emmanuel Gerard. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (252 p.) : 13 halftones, 6 maps text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- People and Places, 1960 -- Introduction -- 1. The Congo of the Belgians -- 2. In dependence -- 3. The Empire Strikes Back -- 4. The Cold War Comes to Africa -- 5. Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN -- 6. The Government Falls -- 7. Mobutu -- 8. Africans against Lumumba -- 9. The Central Intelligence Agency -- 10. The Return of the Belgians -- 11. Lumumba Imperiled -- 12. Killing Lumumba -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in the second half of the twentieth century. When Belgium relinquished colonial control in June 1960, a charismatic thirty-five-year-old African nationalist, Patrice Lumumba, became prime minister of the new republic. Yet stability immediately broke down. A mutinous Congolese Army spread havoc, while Katanga Province in southeast Congo seceded altogether. Belgium dispatched its military to protect its citizens, and the United Nations soon intervened with its own peacekeeping troops. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, both the Soviet Union and the United States maneuvered to turn the crisis to their Cold War advantage. A coup in September, secretly aided by the UN, toppled Lumumba's government. In January 1961, armed men drove Lumumba to a secluded corner of the Katanga bush, stood him up beside a hastily dug grave, and shot him. His rule as Africa's first democratically elected leader had lasted ten weeks. More than fifty years later, the murky circumstances and tragic symbolism of Lumumba's assassination still trouble many people around the world. Emmanuel Gerard and Bruce Kuklick pursue events through a web of international politics, revealing a tangled history in which many people-black and white, well-meaning and ruthless, African, European, and American-bear responsibility for this crime. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) HISTORY / Africa / Central. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2015 9783110438635 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674725270 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674735729 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674735729 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674735729.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- People and Places, 1960 -- Introduction -- 1. The Congo of the Belgians -- 2. In dependence -- 3. The Empire Strikes Back -- 4. The Cold War Comes to Africa -- 5. Dag Hammarskjöld and the UN -- 6. The Government Falls -- 7. Mobutu -- 8. Africans against Lumumba -- 9. The Central Intelligence Agency -- 10. The Return of the Belgians -- 11. Lumumba Imperiled -- 12. Killing Lumumba -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Essay on Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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