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I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation Paperback - 2006
by Wrong, Michela
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Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The way international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny gives the story of Eritrea a resonance and a tragic dimension beyond imagining.
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- Title I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation
- Author Wrong, Michela
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 480
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2006-06-13
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0060780932
- ISBN 9780060780937 / 0060780932
- Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.3 x 1.14 in (20.42 x 13.46 x 2.90 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Cultural Region: East Africa
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 20046077
- Dewey Decimal Code 963.507
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Summary
Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions. Fascist Italy wanted Eritrea as the springboard for a new, racially pure Roman empire; Britain sold off its industry for scrap; the United States needed a base for its state-of-the-art spy station; and the Soviet Union used it as a pawn in a proxy war.In I Didn't Do It for You, Michela Wrong reveals the breathtaking abuses this tiny nation has suffered and, with a sharp eye for detail and a taste for the incongruous, tells the story of colonialism itself and how international power politics can play havoc with a country's destiny.
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Whenever I land in Asmara, a novel read in adolescence comes to mind.
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Citations
- New York Times, 07/23/2006, Page 20
