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Author Lewis, I. M

Title A modern history of the Somali : nation and state in the Horn of Africa / I.M. Lewis
Edition 4th ed
Published Oxford : James Currey ; Hargeisa, Somaliland : Btec Books ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 347 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Series Eastern African studies
Eastern African studies.
Contents Preface to the fourth edition -- Maps -- Photographs -- ch. 1. The physical and social setting -- ch. 2. Before partition -- ch. 3. The Imperial partition : 1860-97 -- ch. 4. The Dervish fight for freedom : 1900-20 -- ch. 5. Somali unification : the Italian East African empire -- ch. 6. The restoration of colonial frontiers : 1940-50 -- ch. 7. From trusteeship to independence : 1950-60 -- ch. 8. The problems of independence -- ch. 9. The Somali revolution : 1969-76 -- ch. 10. Nationalism, ethnicity and revolution in the Horn of Africa -- ch. 11. Chaos, international intervention and developments in the North -- Notes -- Index
Summary "The Fourth Edition of this history shows the amazing continuity of Somali forms of social organisation and the ingeniousness with which the Somali way of life has adapted to all forms of modernity."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-347) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Subject Somalis -- History
Horn of Africa -- History
Decolonization -- Somalia -- History
HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
Politics and government
Decolonization
Somalis
SUBJECT Somalia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124768
Somalia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85124770
Subject Somalia
Somalia.
Genre/Form History
History (form)
Textbooks (form)
Form Electronic book
Author Lewis, I. M. Modern history of Somalia
ISBN 9780821445730
0821445731
9781782049876
1782049878
Other Titles Somali