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54-4991 DT31 CIP Encyclopedia of African colonial conflicts, ed. by Timothy J. Stapleton. ABC-CLIO, 2016. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781598848366 cloth, $189.00; ISBN 9781598848373 ebook, contact publisher for price
In this two-volume encyclopedia, editor Stapleton (history, Univ. of Calgary, Canada) explains to readers unfamiliar with the continent that Africa is not inherently a place of conflict. The crisis and political upheavals in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Libya, and Sudan, for example, seem to many to result from persistent conditions of economic and...