ISBN:
0-521-21069-0
,
978-0-521-21069-0
ISSN:
0065-406X
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 228 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
African Studies (Cambridge) 19
Keywords:
Westafrika Guinea
;
Kamerun
;
Nigeria
;
Sokoto, Kalifat
;
Geschichte
;
Krieg
;
Kriegsführung
;
Krieg und Gesellschaft
;
Hausa
;
Fulah Empire
;
Fulani
;
Waffe
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- General Glossary -- Part One: Historical Perspectives -- 1 Introduction: Sudanic Warfare and Military Organization to c. 1800 -- 2 The Jihad Period, c. 1790-1817 -- 3 Military Organization in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1817-1860 -- 4 Organization for Defense and Security -- 5 The Theory and Practice of War -- 6 The Firearms Trade in the Central Sudan: The Expansion of the "Gun-frontier" -- 7 Firearms in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1860-1903 -- Part Two: Sociological Perspectives -- 8 The Evolution of Politico-Military Organization in the Sokoto Caliphate, c. 1790-1903 -- 9 The Functions of War in the Sokoto Caliphate -- 10 Warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate: Summary and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- A Glossary of Hausa-Fulani Military Titles -- A Glossary of Hausa Military Terminology -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 203-215"Originally prepared as a doctoral thesis at Northwestern University (1970). Since then it has been revised [...]" (Preface)
,
Ph.D. thesis, Northwestern University, 1970, entitled Historical and sociological aspects of warfare in the Sokoto Caliphate.
