It looks like you're offline.
Open Library logo
additional options menu

MARC Record from Library of Congress

Record ID marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part41.utf8:121042497:2562
Source Library of Congress
Download Link /show-records/marc_loc_2016/BooksAll.2016.part41.utf8:121042497:2562?format=raw

LEADER: 02562cam a2200493 i 4500
001 2013933566
003 DLC
005 20140827080759.0
008 130220s2013 mauabf b 001 0 eng d
010 $a 2013933566
020 $a9780306821172 (hardcover)
020 $a0306821176 (hardcover)
020 $z9780306821585 (e-book)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn808413563
040 $aBTCTA$beng$cBTCTA$erda$dYDXCP$dBDX$dKNJ$dZHB$dVP@$dBWX$dLEB$dABG$dCDX$dOCLCF$dYJL$dWIM$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
043 $af-so---
050 00 $aDT407.4$b.F47 2013
082 04 $a967.73053$223
100 1 $aFergusson, James,$d1966-$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe world's most dangerous place :$binside the outlaw state of Somalia /$cJames Fergusson.
250 $aFirst Da Capo Press edition.
264 1 $aBoston, MA :$bDa Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group,$c[2013]
300 $a405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 383-393) and index.
505 00 $gPart 1.$tLiving on the line.$tAn African Stalingrad : the war against al-Shabaab ;$tAt the Bancroft Hotel : America's proxy war ;$tThe field hospital : what bombs and bullets do to people ;$tAden's story ;$tThe failure of Somali politics ;$tWhat makes al-Shabaab tick? ;$tThe famine --$gPart 2.$tNomads' land.$tIn the court of King Farole ;$tGalkacyo : Pirateville ;$tHargeisa nights ;$tHow to start a border war --$gPart 3.$tThe diaspora.$tThe Somali youth time-bomb ;$tThe missing of Minneapolis ;$t'Clanism is a disease like AIDS' ;$tOperation Linda Nchi : the end for al-Shabaab?
588 $aSubtitle from dust jacket.
520 $aThis is an authoritative account of the Somali region, its history, and the story of the Islamic extremists operating there today cites the high human cost of the region's clan-based civil war while explaining how current activities are directly threatening world security.
651 0 $aSomalia$xHistory$y1991-
651 0 $aSomalia$xSocial conditions$y1960-
650 0 $aIslamic fundamentalism$zSomalia.
650 0 $aTerrorism$zSomalia.
610 20 $aShabaab (Organization)
610 20 $aQaida (Organization)
610 27 $aQaida (Organization)$2fast
650 7 $aIslamic fundamentalism.$2fast
650 7 $aSocial history.$2fast
650 7 $aTerrorism.$2fast
651 7 $aSomalia.$2fast
648 7 $aSince 1960$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast