I Didn't Do It for You
by Wrong, Michela
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060780924
- ISBN 13
- 9780060780920
- Seller
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- MAB Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79139
- Title
- I Didn't Do It for You
- Author
- Wrong, Michela
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060780924
- ISBN 13
- 9780060780920
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- 0060780924
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