Historical Dictionary of Guinea
- ISBN-10
- 0810865459
- ISBN-13
- 9780810865457
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-03-16
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press
- Authors
- Thomas O'Toole, Janice E. Baker
Description
Thoroughly updated and extensively revised, this 4th edition provides a very solid and substantial guide to a better understanding of this richly endowed but poorly understood nation. Students and others seeking information about the country will find an introductory narrative accounting of Guinea's political and economic history, a chronology that spans the earliest known history of the area to the present day Republic of Guinea, 400 dictionary entries covering the personalities and events that made contemporary Guinea, and an extensive bibliography of current publications.
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