Description |
1 online resource (xx, 366 pages) : maps |
Series |
African social studies series ; v. 30 |
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African social studies series ; v. 30.
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Contents |
Introduction -- Pre-colonial shifting resource borders and ethnic relations, 1800-1908 -- The marking of an imperial frontier : two borders, two states, 1898-1909 -- Tax extractions, imperial relations and responses by frontier nomads, 1908-1935 -- Transfrontier grazing and watering rights : a proxy of border contests, 1908-1935 -- Tigre frontier banditry : a legacy of imperial conquest, 1908-1934 -- Negotiating ethnic conflicts : states and feuding nomads, 1911-1935 -- Fascist italy's conquest of Ethiopia : the Southern Front, 1935-1937 -- A new imperial neighbor on the frontier : the dilemma of coexistence, 1936-1939 -- War, contests and conflicts : a brief collapse of an imperial frontier, 1939-1942 -- The return to imperial frontier politics : the British and Ethiopia, 1942-1948 -- Jeegir banditry : rebellion by frontier nomads, 1941-1943 -- Compensating victims of banditry in 1943 : states and pastoralists -- Political legacies of shifting politics -- Summary |
Summary |
In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires, Gufu Oba offers accounts of the outcomes of imperial state contests over trans-frontier treaty, nomads grazing and watering movements, banditry, ethnic conflicts and wars that created lasting legacies along the southern Ethiopian-northern Kenyan frontier |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Nomads -- Ethiopia
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Nomads -- Kenya
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Pastoral systems -- Ethiopia
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Pastoral systems -- Kenya
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Land use, Rural -- Ethiopia
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Land use, Rural -- Kenya
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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International relations
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Land use, Rural
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Nomads
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Pastoral systems
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Politics and government
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SUBJECT |
Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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Ethiopia -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045147
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Ethiopia -- Relations -- Kenya
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Kenya -- Relations -- Ethiopia
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Subject |
Ethiopia
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Kenya
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2013021424 |
ISBN |
9789004255227 |
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9004255222 |
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9004244395 |
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9789004244399 |
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