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Author Gleijeses, Piero.

Title Conflicting missions : Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976 / Piero Gleijeses
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 552 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Envisioning Cuba
Envisioning Cuba.
Contents Acknowledgments; Note on Citations; Abbreviations; Prologue; 1 Castro's Cuba, 1959-1964; 2 Cuba's First Venture in Africa: Algeria; 3 Flee! The White Giants Are Coming!; 4 Castro Turns to Central Africa; 5 Che in Zaire; 6 A Successful Covert Operation; 7 American Victory; 8 Cubans in the Congo; 9 Guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau; 10 Castro's Cuba, 1965-1975; 11 The Collapse of the Portuguese Empire; 12 The Gathering Storm: Angola, January-October 1975; 13 South Africa's Friends; 14 Pretoria Meets Havana; 15 Cuban Victory; 16 Repercussions; 17 Looking Back; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography
Summary An account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with US policy toward the continent. The text covers Cuba's first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961 to the dispatch of 30,000 Cubans to Angola in 1975-76
Analysis Cuba Relaciones internacionales África
África Relaciones internacionales Cuba
Movimientos de liberación nacional África
Guerra fría
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-538) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject National liberation movements -- Africa
Cold War.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Diplomatic relations
National liberation movements
Buitenlandse politiek.
SUBJECT Cuba -- Foreign relations -- Africa
Africa -- Foreign relations -- Cuba
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 1959-
Africa -- Foreign relations -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001555
United States -- Foreign relations -- Africa
Africa -- Foreign relations -- United States
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098
Cuba -- Foreign relations -- 1959-1990. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85034560
Subject Africa
Cuba
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807861626
9780807861622
9781469603360
1469603365
0807854646
9780807854648