Colonial Africa
by Christopher, A.J., (Anthony John)
fromCroom Helm historical geography series
Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, this book has been revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s.
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