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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Reid, Richard J. War in pre-colonial eastern Africa. London ; Nairobi : The British Institute in Eastern Africa ; Oxford : In association with James Currey ; Nairobi : Eastern African Educational Publishers ; Kampala [Uganda] : Fountain ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)608476447 Online version: Reid, Richard J. War in pre-colonial eastern Africa. London ; Nairobi : The British Institute in Eastern Africa ; Oxford : In association with James Currey ; Nairobi : Eastern African Educational Publishers ; Kampala [Uganda] : Fountain ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2007 (OCoLC)631576940 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard J Reid; British Institute in Eastern Africa. |
| ISBN: | 1847016057 9781847016058 1847016049 9781847016041 997002728X 9789970027286 0821417940 9780821417942 0821417959 9780821417959 |
| OCLC Number: | 156891497 |
| Description: | xvi, 256 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | African war in historical & theoretical perspective. --Antiquity & inheritance, restorative violence & the weight of history. --Tools & tactics. --Organisation & function. --Cost & profit, war & economic change. --Violence & society. --The resolution & avoidance of conflict. --The culture of conflict. --Conclusions, war & the making of state & society. |
| Series Title: | Eastern African studies (London, England) |
| Responsibility: | Richard Reid. |
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Examines the nature and objectives of violence in Africa in the 19th century. This title is concerned with highland Ethiopia and the Great Lakes. It is of interest to those interested in pre-colonial African history and military history.
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A useful book that will serve as inspiration for future scholarship on violence and conflict in eastern Africa and beyond. AFRICAN HISTORY An important and thoughtful overview that reminds us that African military history is worth studying in its own right, and that it illuminates much else about 'state and society'. AFRICAN STUDIES REVIEW Although a large number of local and regional studies touch on warfare, few have made it a central theme and even fewer have given the topic the kind of thoughtful and wide-reaching treatment offered here. - Richard Waller Read more...
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