Warfare in African history
by Reid, Richard J., (Reid, Richard James)
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.
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- Full title :Warfare in African history / Richard J. Reid
Summary
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.
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- Publication Date:2012
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012
The Physical Object
- Description:xxi, 188 s. : : maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780521195102, 0521195101, 9780521123976, 0521123976
- oclc:ocn790679542
- LC Classification:DT21.5
- Dewey Decimal:355.02096
Table of Contents
1. The contours of violence: environment, economy, and polity in African warfare; 2. Arms in Africa's antiquity: patterns and systems of warfare, to th early second millennium CE; 3. The military foundations of state and society, to c. 1600; 4. Destruction and construction, c. 1600-c. 1800; 5. Transformations in violence: military revolution and the 'long' nineteenth century; 6. Revolutions incomplete: the old and the new in the modern era.
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