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Autore: | Clayton Anthony |
Titolo: | Frontiersmen [[electronic resource] ] : warfare in Africa since 1950 |
Pubblicazione: | Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2002 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina: | 355.0209609045 |
355/.0096/09045 | |
960.32 | |
Soggetto topico: | Military art and science |
War | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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.: | 9910783866603321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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