Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding

Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding

Winner of the 2013 Choice Award for Outstanding Academic Title Battleground Africa traces the Congo Crisis from post-World War I decolonization efforts through Mobutu's second coup in 1965 from a radically new vantage point. Drawing on recently opened archives in Russia and the United States, and to a lesser extent Germany and Belgium, Lisa Namikas addresses the crisis from the perspectives of the two superpowers and explains with superb clarity the complex web of allies, clients, and neutral states influencing U.S.-Soviet competition. Unlike any other work, Battleground Africa looks at events leading up to independence, then considers the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, the series of U.N.-supported constitutional negotiations, and the crises of 1964 and 1965. Finding that the U.S. and the USR each wanted to avoid a major confrontation, but also misunderstood its opponent's goals and wanted to avoid looking weak or losing its political standing in Africa, Namikas argues that a series of exaggerations and misjudgements helped to militarize the crisis, and ultimately, helped militarize the Cold War on the continent.

HELEN FIELDING Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Western Ontario, Canada ANNEMIE HALSEMA Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands GABRIELLE HILTMANN Lecturer in Philosophy, Basel University, Switzerland RACHEL JONES Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Dundee, UK DOROTHEA OLKOWSKI Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA ANNE RECIHOLD Professor of Philosophy, University of Flensburg, Germany CHRISTINA SCHUES Assistant Professor, University of Vechta, Germany JENNY SLATMAN Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Tilberg University, the Netherlands CATHRYN VASSELEU University of Technology, Sydney, Australia VERONICA VASTERLING Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands GAIL WEISS Associate Professor of Philosophy, George Washington University, USA

SKU	CIN0670033332G
ISBN 13	9780670033331
ISBN 10	0670033332
Title	Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination
Author	Helen Fielding
Condition	Good
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Adult
Year published	2004-06-03
Number of pages	305
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