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The Horn of Africa

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Horn of Africa

By Christopher Clapham

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About the book

Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contemporary nation-states, despite the striking regional particularity inherited from the colonial past. Christopher Clapham explores how the Horn's peculiar topography gave rise to the Ethiopian empire, the sole African state not only to survive European colonialism, but also to...Show more

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ISBN

9781849048286

Publisher

C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

Edition

1

Original title

The Horn of Africa

Format

Paperback

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