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Frontiersmen

Frontiersmen

Anthony Clayton

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
1998
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Historia
ISBN:
9781857285253
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Focusing on warfare in Africa since 1950, the text explores two themes: that in North Africa warfare has been a matter of identity and that south of the Sahara is comparable with that of pre-colonial Africa.

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