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UNINA9910783866603321 |
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Autore |
Clayton Anthony |
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Titolo |
Frontiersmen [[electronic resource] ] : warfare in Africa since 1950 |
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Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-135-36388-9 |
0-203-15861-X |
1-280-40063-3 |
0-203-00670-4 |
9786610400638 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (260 p.) |
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Collana |
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355.0209609045 |
355/.0096/09045 |
960.32 |
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Soggetti |
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Military art and science |
War |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Maps; Preface; Introduction; Independence wars 1950 to 1962; Independence wars 1962 to 1980; Wars of integration and disintegration I: 1960 to 1980; Southern Africa to 1983; Southern Africa 1984 to 1997; Wars of integration and disintegration II: 1980 to 1997; Conclusion; Appendix: technical note; Notes; Chronology; Selected reading; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Since 1950, there has been almost continuous military unrest in Africa. This study offers an overview of warfare in this period, examining a military tradition that ranges from the highly sophisticated electronic, air and armour fighting between South Africa and Angola-Cuban forces, to the spears and machetes of the Rwandan genocide. The author explores two themes: first, that warfare in North Africa has principally been a matter of identity and secondly, that warfare south of the Sahara is comparable with that of pre-colonial Africa - conflicts of frontiersmen trying to extend their control o |
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