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Africana by
Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence.
Location: African Studies Library Reference DT14 .A37435 2005Publication Date: 2005-04-07
The Oxford Companion to World War II by
'The Oxford Companion to the Second World War, by virtue of its scale, its range and its scholarship, is an outstanding guide, as sensible and cogent on the big questions as it is instructive and informed on the lesser ones.'HEW STRACHAN, TLS'indispensable...unlikely to be superseded this century'JOHN KEEGAN, Daily Telegraph'easy to use, solid of fact, perceptive and judicious'JOHN ERICKSON, Times Higher'It will immediately take its place as the indispensable reference book for students of the second world war.'GORDON LEE, The Economist'a magnificent volume and an invaluable resource'J. A. CRANG, The Historical AssociationThese are just a few of the review quotes generated by the Companion when it was published in hardback in 1995. World War II was a war that affected the whole world and reached into every aspect of existence. It was a war which touched all nations, penetrated all aspects of people's lives, and which helped shape the world today. Over 140 distinguished and internationally renowned contributors have writtenover 1750 entries covering the very wide-ranging topics that make up the single subject of World War II. Entries include:surveys of major countries: France, Germany, Australia, India, USA, Japan, including sections in each about domestic life, culture, economics, government, resistance, and defencecolonial possessions and less major players: British Central Africa, British Cameroons, Dutch East Indies, Latvia, Libya, Slovakiacampaigns: East Africa campaign, Burma campaign, Normandy campaign, Fezzan campaigns, Western desert campaignsbattles: battle of the River Plate, battle of East China Sea, battle of Kasserine Passmilitary operations: FALL GELB, BARBAROSSA, OVERLORDtypes of warfare: electronic, chemical, economic, signals intelligencewartime leaders: Stalin, Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, Mussolini, Hirohitopolitics and strategy: Grand Alliance, the Final Solution, the atomic bombdesign, development and use of machines and weapons: tanks, submarines, rockets, battleships, anti-tank weapons, human torpedoes, Baka bombsorganisations associated with the war: Arab League, Force K, Hitler Youth, Cossacksplaces made famous in the war: Dachau, Bletchley Park, Nagasakislogans and phrases: wavy navy, Bevin Boys, Big Red One, jerry cans, Blackshirts
Location: D740 .O94 2001ISBN: 9780198604464Publication Date: 2002
Africa South of the Sahara 2016 by
The definitive one-volume guide to all sub-Saharan African countries, providing invaluable economic, political, statistical and directory data.... Individual chapters on every country incorporating: essays on the physical and social geography, recent history and economies an extensive statistical survey of economic indicators a full directory containing names, addresses and contact details for key areas such as the government, diplomatic representation, the media, finance, trade and industry, and defence a useful bibliography, providing sources for further research.
Location: African Studies Library Reference DT351 .F71Publication Date: 2015-12-16
Africa at a Glance by
Although a great deal of attention is focused on Africa's economic failures and political instability, a factual compendium such as this, the 16th edition of Africa at a Glance, serves as a reminder of the many positive achievements which need to be appreciated. This compilation has been issued since 1968. It has been prepared to fulfill the need for an up-to-date and concise compendium of published but not readily accessible data on the countries of Africa. Every effort has been made to provide the most current as well as authoritative information. Apart from presenting the latest available data, new tables, maps and diagrams have been added. Attention may be drawn particularly to the inclusion of new tables in Section Two: Poverty and Selected Risk Indicators. While the raison d'etre of the Africa Institute of South African is the conducting and dissemination of scholarly research, it is also concerned with the collection and dissemination of statistical and other factual data about the African continent. The present issue of Africa at a Glance serves the latter purpose."
Location: Online resourceISBN: 079830491XPublication Date: 2016-02-22
Middle East and North Africa by
This volume, the second in the World Boundaries series, brings together analyses of a region which, from colonial times to the present, has seen great territorial change.
Location: DS43 .F49ISBN: 0415088399Publication Date: 2016+
