Frontiersmen : warfare in Africa since 1950 / / Anthony Clayton

• Autore: Clayton Anthony <1928->
• Pubblicazione: London, : UCL Press, 1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.0209609045
• Soggetto topico: War; Military art and science - Africa - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Africa History, Military; Africa History 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Bibliography: p227-229. - Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Frontiersmen
• ISBN: 1-135-36388-9; 0-203-15861-X; 1-280-40063-3; 0-203-00670-4; 9786610400638
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812984003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Warfare and history.