LEADER 01472nam 2200385Ia 4500001 99125354643206421 005 20200520144314.0 006 m o d | 007 cr|||||||||||| 008 111209s2012 nyub ob 001 0 eng d 020 1-107-22340-7 020 1-139-36531-2 020 1-280-66378-2 020 9786613640710 020 1-139-37779-5 020 1-139-37493-1 020 1-139-04309-9 020 1-139-37636-5 020 1-139-37094-4 020 1-139-37922-4 035 (CKB)2550000000103219 035 (EBL)880632 035 (OCoLC)794327657 035 (SSID)ssj0000659458 035 (PQKBManifestationID)11463206 035 (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659458 035 (PQKBWorkID)10695773 035 (PQKB)11403955 035 (UkCbUP)CR9781139043090 035 (MiAaPQ)EBC880632 035 (Au-PeEL)EBL880632 035 (CaPaEBR)ebr10565101 035 (CaONFJC)MIL364071 035 (EXLCZ)992550000000103219 040 MiAaPQ |beng |erda |epn |cMiAaPQ |dMiAaPQ 041 eng 043 f----- 050 4 DT21.5 |b.R45 2012 082 0 355.02096 |223 084 HIS001000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Reid, Richard J. |q(Richard James) 245 10 Warfare in African history / |cRichard J. Reid. 250 1st ed. 260 New York : |bCambridge University Press, |c2012. 300 1 online resource (xxi, 188 pages) : |bdigital, PDF file(s). 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 computer |bc |2rdamedia 338 online resource |bcr |2rdacarrier 490 1 New approaches to African history ; |v6 505 0 Cover; Warfare in African History; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1: The Contours of Violence: Environment, Economy and Polity in African Warfare; Terrain and Population; War and Economic Development; Questions of Culture and Society; Fortified Centres and Mobile Frontiers: War and Polity; Further reading; CHAPTER 2: Arms in Africa's Antiquity: Patterns and Systems of Warfare, to the Early Second Millennium CE; Cavalry Empires of the Savannah; Colonisers and Converts in Northern Africa; Violence and Empire in Northeast Africa 505 8 The Bantu Diffusion and Its Politico-Military ImplicationsReflections: War and the Military in the Deep Past; Further Reading; CHAPTER 3: The Military Foundations of State and Society, to circa 1600; Expanding Horizons in North and Northeast Africa; Shifting Centres, Advancing Peripheries: Saharan and Savannah Militaries; Founding Fathers and Militarised Mythologies: War, State and Society in Sub-Saharan Africa; Reflections: The Roots of Modern Military Establishments; Further reading; CHAPTER 4: Destruction and Construction, circa 1600 to circa 1800 505 8 Merchant and Military in Atlantic Africa: The Slaving StateReform, Consolidation and Crisis: Patterns of War and Polity in Eastern and Southern Africa; Wars of Faith, Land and Livelihood; Reflections: The Local and the Global; Further reading; CHAPTER 5: Transformations in Violence: Military Revolution and the 'Long' Nineteenth Century; Defining 'Revolution'; A Revolution in the Practice and Culture of War; Conflict and Co-Option in the Age of Imperialism; Reflections: Africa's Violent Transformation; Further reading; CHAPTER 6: Revolutions Incomplete: The Old and the New in the Modern Era 505 8 The Military in the Polity: National TransitionsThe Armed Frontier, Resurgent and Insurgent; Vortices of Violence: Established Patterns and New Directions in Contemporary War; Reflections: War and Peace, and History; Further reading; Index 546 English 500 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 520 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. He traces shifts in the culture and practice of war from the first millennium into the era of the external slave trades, and then into the nineteenth century, when a military revolution unfolded across much of Africa. The repercussions of that revolution, as well as the impact of colonial rule, continue to this day. The frequency of coups d'états and civil war in Africa's recent past is interpreted in terms of the continent's deeper past. 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 Military art and science |zAfrica |xHistory. 650 0 Politics and war |zAfrica |xHistory. 650 0 War and society |zAfrica |xHistory. 650 0 War |xEconomic aspects |zAfrica |xHistory. 650 0 Civil war |zAfrica |xHistory. 650 0 Coups d'etat |zAfrica |xHistory. 651 0 Africa |xHistory, Military. 651 0 Africa |xColonial influence. 776 |z0-521-12397-6 776 |z0-521-19510-1 830 0 New approaches to African history ; |v6. 906 BOOK