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A Popular History of Idi Amin's Uganda
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Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: REKY355
EAN: 9780300278385
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Beschreibung
How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic "Peterson, an expert archivist, has created, from heaps of file folders, magnetic tapes, and other materials recovered from abandoned storage rooms around the country, what is probably the largest organized repository of government documents anywhere in Africa. The details of what they found, and especially what they didn't find, are fascinating. "-Helen Epstein, New York Review of Books Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight calamitous years. Drawing on recently uncovered archival material, Derek Peterson reconstructs the political logic of the era, focusing on the ordinary people-civil servants, curators and artists, businesspeople, patriots-who invested their energy and resources in making the government work. Peterson reveals how Amin (1928-2003) led ordinary people to see themselves as front-line soldiers in a global war against imperialism and colonial oppression. They worked tirelessly to ensure that government institutions kept functioning, even as resources dried up and political violence became pervasive. In this case study of how principled, talented, and patriotic people sacrificed themselves in service to a dictator, Peterson provides lessons for our own time.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Derek R. Peterson
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 376