Civil Wars: Internal Struggles, Global Consequences
- ISBN-10
- 0802096727
- ISBN-13
- 9780802096722
- Series
- Civil Wars
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 262
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-01-01
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Authors
- Frederic S. Pearson, Marie Olson Lounsbery
Description
"Clearly the best single volume treatment of civil war now available. This is an admirable synthesis and analysis of theoretical, historical, statistical, and case study literatures. Useful as a textbook at the undergraduate and graduate level." - Roy Licklider, Rutgers University
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