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Revolution in Zanzibar : an American's Cold War tale / Donald Petterson.
- Title
- Revolution in Zanzibar : an American's Cold War tale / Donald Petterson.
- Author
- Petterson, Donald
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : Oxford : Westview, 2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DT449.Z29 P47 2002x | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 286 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "The Cold War came to Zanzibar in 1964 after African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led at first by a strange, messianic Ugandan, the rebels became heavily influenced by pro-Communists, including Cuban-trained gun toters, making Zanzibar (in the eyes of Washington, London, and some African capitals) a potentially cancerous base for the communist subversion of mainland Africa. Exotic Zanzibar - fabled island of spices, former slave-trading entrepot, and stepping-off point for nineteenth-century expeditions into the vast interior of the Dark Continent - had succumbed to the terror of twentieth-century revolution and Cold War intrigue." "As the only American in Zanzibar throughout the revolution, Petterson reports with the inside authority of a highly placed diplomatic observer, illuminating how the current troubles in Zanzibar are rooted in the Cold War and the revolution of 1964"--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0813339499
- OCLC
- 49395604
- SCSB-11813398
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library