Review: David Birmingham, A Short History of Modern Angola (2015)

Review: David Birmingham, A Short History of Modern Angola (2015)

Review of the monograph: David Birmingham, A Short History of Modern Angola, London: Hurst, 2015, ISBN 9781849045193, 159 pp.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jon Schubert
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE Publishing 2016-01-01
Series:	Africa Spectrum
Subjects:	history, political science history, state, politics/policy, colonial policy, civil wars, decolonization 320, 321, 324, 325, 330, 960, 966 Angola 1820-2015
Online Access:	http://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/afsp/article/view/930

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