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Book Review | 2017

Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War

Inge Amundsen (2017)
in Perspectives on Politics vol. 15 no. 1 pp. 272-273
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759271600503X

Review of the book:

Magnificent and Beggar Land: Angola since the Civil War, by Richardo Soares de Oliveira.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 320p.

Read more:
https://doi.org/10.1017/S153759271600503X

Inge Amundsen

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  • Democracy and Governance
  • Climate and Natural Resources
  • Angola

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