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King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Adam Hochschild Mariner Books Mariner Books
King Leopold of Belgium, writes historian Adam Hochschild in this grim history, did not much care for his native land or his subjects, all of which he dismissed as "small country, small people." Even so, he searched the globe to find a colony for...
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The Graves Are Not Yet Full: Race, Tribe, and Power in the Heart of Africa
Bill Berkeley Basic Books Basic Books
Since 1983 journalist Bill Berkeley has traveled through Africa's most troubled lands-Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, and Zaire-seeking out the tyrants and military leaders who orchestrate seemingly intractable wars. Shattering the...
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Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone
Larry Devlin PublicAffairs PublicAffairs
Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied, and governmental authority had collapsed. As he crossed the Congo River in an almost...
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The African Dream: The diaries of the Revolutionary War in the Congo
Ernesto "Che" Guevara Grove Press Grove Press
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, a man whose heroic adventures were essential to the success of the Cuban Revolution and whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid...
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The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality
Thomas Turner Zed Books Zed Books
This book, by a lifelong authority on the Congo, makes sense of the world’s least reported and least understood major war. Since 1996 successive waves of armed conflict in the Congo have left behind at least 3 million casualties,...
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The Congo: From Leopold to Kabila: A People's History
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Zed Books Zed Books
As this book shows, the People of the Congo have suffered throughout the past century from a particularly brutal experience of colonial rule, and a series of post-independence political conflicts. But as this insightful political history of the...
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The Failure of Democracy in the Republic of Congo
John F. Clark Lynne Rienner Publishers Lynne Rienner Publishers
Why did the democratic experiment launched in the Republic of Congo in 1991 fail so dramatically in 1997? Why has it not been seriously resumed since then? In tackling these complex questions, John Clark provides a thorough analysis of more than...
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A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo ( Commodity, Text)
Nancy Rose Hunt, Nancy Rose Hunt Duke University Press Duke University Press
A Colonial Lexicon is the first historical investigation of how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Rejecting the “colonial encounter” paradigm pervasive in current studies, Nancy Rose Hunt elegantly weaves together stories about...
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