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Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations used in the text

Introduction

1 Prelude to the Seychelles of René

2 Conceived in isolation

3 Less than innocent abroad

4 London and the bank

5 Towards Seychelles independence

6 The coalition and the republic

7 The coup

8 Assembling the apparatus of oppression

9 The campaign against the opposition

10 Death in London

11 Developing the new state

12 Strange friends in New York, Rome and Rwanda

13 Perplexed friends and unfussed enemies in the Cold War

14 1989 and all that

15 The new economy

16 Mastering democracy

17 Leaving on his own terms

18 The character of René

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Ashton Robinson is Honorary Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

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