Frontiers Of Violence In North East Africa

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615927
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast Africa has one of the richest histories in the world, and yet also one of the most violent. Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, incorporating the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands and their escarpment and lowland peripheries, stretching between the modern Eritrean Red Sea coast and the southern and eastern borderlands of present day Ethiopia. Sudanese and Somali frontiers are also examined insofar as they can be related to ethnic, political, and religious conflict, and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region since c.1800. Reid argues that this modern warfare is not solely the product of modern political 'failure', but rather has its roots in a network of frontier zones which are both violent and creative. Such borderlands have given rise to markedly militarised political cultures which are rooted in the violence of the nineteenth century, and which in recent decades are manifest in authoritarian systems of government. Reid thus traces the history of Amhara and Tigrayan imperialisms to the nationalist and ethnic revolutions which represented the march of volatile borderlands on the hegemonic centre. He suggests a new interpretation of Ethiopian and Eritrean history, arguing that the key to understanding the region's turbulent present lies in an appreciation of the role of the armed, and politically fertile, frontier in its deeper past.

Author : Richard James Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191725135
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa written by Richard James Reid and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the 19th and 20th centuries incorporating the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands and their escarpment and lowland peripheries, stretching between the modern Eritrean Red Sea coast and the southern and eastern borderlands of Ethiopia.

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199211884
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa written by Richard J. Reid and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates violent conflict through the 19th and 20th centuries in the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Sudanese and Somali frontiers to ethnic, political, and religious conflict and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region.

Author : David M. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317539524
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa written by David M. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades, exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries – Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

Author : Richard J. Reid
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521195101
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare in African History written by Richard J. Reid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.

Author : Philip Gooding
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009302477
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World written by Philip Gooding and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century. Philip Gooding deploys diverse source materials, including oral, climatological, anthropological, and archaeological sources, to ground interpretations of the better-known, European-authored archive in local epistemologies and understandings of the past. Gooding shows that Lake Tanganyika's shape, location, and distinctive lacustrine environment contributed to phenomena traditionally associated with the history of the wider Indian Ocean World being negotiated, contested, and re-imagined in particularly robust ways. He adds novel contributions to African and Indian Ocean histories of urbanism, the environment, spirituality, kinship, commerce, consumption, material culture, bondage, slavery, Islam, and capitalism. African peoples and environments are positioned as central to the histories of global economies, religions, and cultures.

Author : Jonathan Fisher
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108494277
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book East Africa after Liberation written by Jonathan Fisher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, far-reaching analysis of contemporary history and politics in East Africa, focusing on the crisis in the region's postcolonial political order.

Author : Timothy Raeymaekers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316240797
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violent Capitalism and Hybrid Identity in the Eastern Congo written by Timothy Raeymaekers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the radical transformation of eastern Congo's political order in the context of apparent armed destruction and state weakness. Looking beyond the dominant paradigms, the author critically assesses the premises of this region's presumed collapse into chaos. He traces violent rule patterns back to a tumultuous history of extra-economic accumulation, armed rebellion and de facto public authority in the margins of regional power plays. Rather than curing the world's ills, the originality of this book lies in its neat focus on cultural and economic uncertainty. It answers the question of what institutional changes are the result of strategies of daily risk management in an environment characterised by violent competition over the right to govern.

Author : Tom Goodfellow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198853106
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and the Urban Frontier written by Tom Goodfellow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-grounded, and interdisciplinary analysis of the urban transformations unfolding in the world's most dynamic crucible of urban change.

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004695427
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Agricultural Intensification, Environmental Conservation, Conflict and Co-Existence at Lake Naivasha, Kenya written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-06-24 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary volume provides a comprehensive and rich analysis of the century-long socio-ecological transformation of Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Major globalised processes of agricultural intensification, biodiversity conservation efforts, and natural-resource extraction have simultaneously manifested themselves in this one location. These processes have roots in the colonial period and have intensified in the past decades, after the establishment of the cut-flower industry and the geothermal-energy industry. The chapters in this volume exemplify the multiple, intertwined socio-environmental crises that consequently have played out in Naivasha in the past and the present, and that continue to shape its future.