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Gleijeses Piero
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Titolo: |
Conflicting missions : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / / Piero Gleijeses
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Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (573 p.) |
Disciplina: | 327.729106/09/046 |
Soggetto topico: | National liberation movements - Africa |
Cold War | |
Soggetto geografico: | Cuba Foreign relations Africa |
Africa Foreign relations Cuba | |
Cuba Foreign relations 1959-1990 | |
Africa Foreign relations 1960- | |
United States Foreign relations Africa | |
Africa Foreign relations United States | |
United States Foreign relations 1945-1989 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [503]-538) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: I Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964 12 -- 2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria 30 -- 3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming! 57 -- 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa 77 -- 6 Che in Zaire 1ol -- 6 A Successful Covert Operation 124 -- 7 American Victory 137 -- 8 Cubans in the Congo i6o -- 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau 185 -- 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975 214 -- 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire 230 -- 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola,January-October 1975 246 -- 13 South Africa's Friends 273 -- 14 Pretoria Meets Havana 300 -- 15 Cuban Victory 328 -- 16 Repercussions 347 -- 17 Looking Back 373 -- Appendix 397 -- Notes 399 -- Bibliography 503 -- Index 539. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses's fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che Guevara clashed with 1,000 mercenaries controlled by the CIA--and, finally, to the dramatic dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76, which stopped the South African advance on Luanda and doomed Henry Kissinger's |
Titolo autorizzato: | Conflicting missions ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-4696-0336-5 |
0-8078-6162-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910807735203321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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