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Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara (African Historical Dictionaries)
Historical Dictionary of Western Sahara - African Historical Dictionaries Since the Madrid Agreement of November 1975, the war between Morocco and the guerillas of the Polisaro Front has proven one of the longest-lasting and most interactable disputes on the African continent. It threatened the survival of the Organization of African Unity in the Early 1980s, and since 1986 has consumed a good deal of the UN's attenti... more »on, including a major--and controversial--attempt by the world body to organize a referendum of self-determination in Western Sahara. The shortage of scholarly work in English on this contested territory continues. This second edition fills the gap, including the UN referendum effort and recent political changes in neighboring Morocco, Mauritania, and Algeria and providing a wealth of historical, sociological, economic, and political information. The dictionary contains some 700 entries, ranging from major personalities, political movements, wars, and treaties, to places, ethnic groups, and economic resources, with extensive entries on the OAU and the UN. Introduction, map, detailed chronology,chart of tribal and ethnic groups, adn heavily augmented bibliography.« less