Frontiers of violence in north-east Africa
Subtitle: genealogies of conflict since c.1800
By: Richard J. Reid
Series: Zones of violence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780199211883
Subjects: Boundaries; History
Description: Richard Reid offers an historical analysis of violent conflict in northeast Africa through the 19th and 20th centuries incorporating the Ethiopian and Eritrean highlands and their escarpment and lowland peripheries, stretching between the modern Eritrean Red Sea coast and the southern and eastern borderlands of Ethiopia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: vii; title: List of Maps
pagenum: ix; title: Glossary and Abbreviations
pagenum: xi; title: Prologue: The Past in the Present
pagenum: 1; label: Part I
title: Setting and Approach; label: 1
title: Interpreting the Region
pagenum: 9; title: Peoples and Places
pagenum: 9; title: Toward a New Regional Historiography
pagenum: 14; title: The Fertile Frontier: Borderlands and Frontier Societies in North-East Africa
pagenum: 20; label: 2
title: The Shadows of Antiquity
pagenum: 24; title: Axum and Its Aftermath
pagenum: 24; title: Violence and Mythology: The New Zion
pagenum: 26; title: The Oromo Frontier
pagenum: 30; label: Part II
title: Violence and Imperialism: The 'Long' Nineteenth Century; label: 3
title: States of Violence, to c. 1870
pagenum: 39; title: Haunted House: The Wars of the Mesafint
pagenum: 39; title: The Politics of Shiftanet: Tewodros and the Frontier State
pagenum: 49; title: Frontiers of Faith
pagenum: 59; label: 4
title: Borderlands, Militarism, and the Making of Empire
pagenum: 66; title: Resurgent Tigray
pagenum: 66; title: Frontiers (1): The Mereb River Zone
pagenum: 69; title: Frontiers (2): Sudan and the North-West
pagenum: 78; title: Pax Solomonia? The Restless Militarism of Menelik's Empire
pagenum: 84; label: Part III
title: Colonialisms, Old and New; label: 5
title: Demarcating Identity: The European Colonial Experience, c. 1890-c.1950
pagenum: 95; title: Blood on the Tracks: Italians on the Mereb
pagenum: 95; title: Raising the First Born: Italian Eritrea, to 1941
pagenum: 99; title: Somalia Divided
pagenum: 108; title: Choices: Eritrea, 1941-52
pagenum: 114; label: 6
title: The Empire of Haile Selassie, c. 1900-74
pagenum: 129; title: The Anomalous Empire
pagenum: 129; title: From Wal Wal to Kagnew: War, Reconstruction, and Reinvention
pagenum: 139; title: Fatal Federation
pagenum: 154; title: Crises Impending
pagenum: 159; label: Part IV
title: Revolutions, Liberations, and the Ghosts of the Mesafint; label: 7
title: Revolution, 'Liberation', and Militant Identity, 1974-91
pagenum: 173; title: The Violent State Renewed: The Derg
pagenum: 173; title: Inter-State Front Lines
pagenum: 177; title: Emerging Markets of Violence: Ethnic and Nationalist Borderlands
pagenum: 183; title: Tigray: Revolution and Renaissance
pagenum: 188; title: Eritrean Epicentre
pagenum: 193; label: 8
title: New States, Old Wars: Violence, Frontier, and Destiny in the Modern Era
pagenum: 208; title: The Dead Governing: Liberation and Federation
pagenum: 208; title: The Great Unexpected War
pagenum: 217; title: Borderline Nation: Eritrea as Frontier Society
pagenum: 226; title: Oromia
pagenum: 236; title: Continuities and Transitions: Somalia and Ethiopia
pagenum: 240; title: Epilogue: Armed Frontiers and Militarized Margins
pagenum: 246; title: Endnotes
pagenum: 257; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 287; title: Index
pagenum: 305