ISBN:
9789004255227
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (388 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
African Social Studies Ser. v.30
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Oba, Gufu, 1952 - Nomads in the shadows of empires
DDC:
963.0086918
Keywords:
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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Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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Ethiopia ; Politics and government ; 19th century
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Land use, Rural ; Ethiopia
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Land use, Rural ; Kenya
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Nomads ; Ethiopia
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Nomads ; Kenya
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Pastoral systems ; Ethiopia
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Pastoral systems ; Kenya
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Äthiopien
;
Kenia
;
Nomade
;
Grenzkonflikt
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Nomads in the Shadows of Empires -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pre-Colonial Shifting Resource Borders and Ethnic Relations, 1800-1908 -- 3. The Marking of an Imperial Frontier: Two Borders, Two States, 1898-1909 -- 4. Tax Extractions, Imperial Relations and Responses by Frontier Nomads, 1908-1935 -- 5. Transfrontier Grazing and Watering Rights: A Proxy of Border Contests, 1908-1935 -- 6. Tigre Frontier Banditry: A Legacy of Imperial Conquest, 1908-1934 -- 7. Negotiating Ethnic Conflicts: States and Feuding Nomads, 1911-1935 -- 8. Fascist Italy's Conquest of Ethiopia: The Southern Front, 1935-1937 -- 9. A New Imperial Neighbor on the Frontier: The Dilemma of Coexistence, 1936-1939 -- 10. War, Contests and Conflicts: A Brief Collapse of an Imperial Frontier, 1939-1942 -- 11. The Return to Imperial Frontier Politics: The British and Ethiopia, 1942-1948 -- 12. Jeegir Banditry: Rebellion by Frontier Nomads, 1941-1943 -- 13. Compensating Victims of Banditry in 1943: States and Pastoralists -- 14. Political Legacies of Shifting Politics -- 15. Summary -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
Nomads in the Shadows of Empires; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Pre-Colonial Shifting Resource Borders and Ethnic Relations, 1800-1908; 3. The Marking of an Imperial Frontier: Two Borders, Two States, 1898-1909; 4. Tax Extractions, Imperial Relations and Responses by Frontier Nomads, 1908-1935; 5. Transfrontier Grazing and Watering Rights: A Proxy of Border Contests, 1908-1935; 6. Tigre Frontier Banditry: A Legacy of Imperial Conquest, 1908-1934
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Negotiating Ethnic Conflicts: States and Feuding Nomads, 1911-19358. Fascist Italy's Conquest of Ethiopia: The Southern Front, 1935-1937; 9. A New Imperial Neighbor on the Frontier: The Dilemma of Coexistence, 1936-1939; 10. War, Contests and Conflicts: A Brief Collapse of an Imperial Frontier, 1939-1942; 11. The Return to Imperial Frontier Politics: The British and Ethiopia, 1942-1948; 12. Jeegir Banditry: Rebellion by Frontier Nomads, 1941-1943; 13. Compensating Victims of Banditry in 1943: States and Pastoralists; 14. Political Legacies of Shifting Politics; 15. Summary; Glossary
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