Research Catalog

Title

Zaire : a country study / Federal Research Division, Library of Congress ; edited by Sandra W. Meditz and Tim Merrill.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Federal Research Division, Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Meditz, Sandra W., 1950-
• Merrill, Tim, 1949-
• Library of Congress. Federal Research Division.

Description

lvii, 394 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Describes and analyses the economic, military, political and social systems and institutions of Zaire. The interrelationships of those systems and institutions and the ways that they are shaped by cultural factors are examined.

Series Statement

• Area handbook series, 1057-5294
• DA pam ; 550-67

Uniform Title

• Area handbook series
• DA pam ; 550-67.

Subject

• ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
• SOCIAL CONDITIONS
• POLITICAL CONDITIONS
• COUNTRY STUDIES
• DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO
• Congo (Democratic Republic)

Note

• "Research completed December 1993."
• Rev. ed. of: Zaïre, a country study / Foreign Area Studies, The American University. 3rd ed. 1979.
• Shipping list no.: 1994-9092-P.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-363) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available via the Internet at the Federal Research Division web site. Address as of 12/1/03: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/zrtoc.html ; current access is available via PURL.

Contents

Historical setting / [René Lemarchand] -- The society and its environment / [Alden Almquist] -- The economy / [Hampton Smith, Tim Merrill, and Sandra W. Meditz] -- Government and politics / [Thomas Turner] -- National security / [Roger C. Glickson and Joshua Sinai].

ISBN

• 084440795X
• 9780844407951

LCCN

94025092

OCLC

• ocm30666705
• 30666705
• SCSB-955908

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library