Warfare in African history
By: Richard J. Reid
Series: New approaches to African history -- 6
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780521195102; 9780521123976
Subjects: HISTORY / Africa / General; Coups d'état; Colonial influence; Military History; Civil war; Politics and war; War and society; Military art and science; War; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 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.