Warfare in African History

Informationen zum Autor Richard J. Reid is Reader in the History of Africa, Department of History, SOAS, at the University of London. He is the author of several books, including Frontiers of Violence in North-East Africa (2011), War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa (2007) and Political Power in Pre-Colonial Buganda (2002). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state! society! and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry! tactics! and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and militarism in African political and economic systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The contours of violence: environment, economy, and polity in African warfare; 2. Arms in Africa's antiquity: patterns and systems of warfare, to the 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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• Authors: Richard J Reid, Richard J. Reid, Richard J. (University of London) Reid
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2012
• EAN: 9780521195102
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19510-2
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: New Approaches to African History; New Approaches to African History; New Approaches to African Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous