Foreign intervention in Africa : from the Cold War to the War on Terror / / Elizabeth Schmidt ; foreword by William Minter.

"Foreign Intervention in Africa chronicles the foreign political and military interventions in Africa during the periods of decolonization (1956-1975) and the Cold War (1945-1991), as well as during the periods of state collapse (1991-2001) and the "global war on terror" (2001-2010)....

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:New approaches to African history ; 7
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Physical Description:xviii, 267 p. :; ill., maps.
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  • Machine generated contents note: Foreword William Minter; Acknowledgments; Illustrations list; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Nationalism, decolonization, and the Cold War (1945-1991); 2. Egypt and Algeria: radical nationalism, nonalignment, and external intervention in North Africa (1952-1973); 3. The Congo crisis (1960-1965); 4. War and decolonization in Portugal's African empire (1961-1975); 5. White minority rule in Southern Africa (1960-1990); 6. Conflict in the Horn (1952-1993); 7. France's private African domain (1947-1991); 8. From the Cold War to the War on Terror (1991-2010); Conclusion; Index.