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War and Conflict Minerals in the World's Deadliest Place
By Peter Eichstaedt
HISTORY
272 Pages, 6 x 9
Formats: Cloth, EPUB, Mobipocket, PDF, Trade Paper
Cloth, $24.95 (US $24.95) (CA $27.95)
ISBN 9781569763100
Rights: WOR
Chicago Review Press (Jul 2011)
Lawrence Hill Books
Overview
Reviews
"A powerful and long-overdue expose of greed and violence in the battle over Africa’s mineral wealth. . . . A harrowing and important work that shows yet again that far-flung conflicts touch closer to home that we may imagine."—Greg Campbell, author of Blood Diamonds: Tracing the Deadly Path of the World's Most Precious StonesAuthor Biography
Peter Eichstaedt is a veteran journalist and author whose work on issues pertaining to human rights has taken him all over the globe. As Africa editor for the Institute of War and Peace in Reporting in The Hague, he traveled extensively in Africa to cover war crimes and trials. He won the 2010 Colorado Book Award for history for his book First Kill Your Family and is also the author of If You Poison Us and Pirate State. His writing has appeared the Denver Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. He lives near Denver, Colorado.