LEADER 05391nam 22008412 450 001 9910452248303321 005 20151005020623.0 010 $a1-107-22340-7 010 $a1-139-36531-2 010 $a1-280-66378-2 010 $a9786613640710 010 $a1-139-37779-5 010 $a1-139-37493-1 010 $a1-139-04309-9 010 $a1-139-37636-5 010 $a1-139-37094-4 010 $a1-139-37922-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103219 035 $a(EBL)880632 035 $a(OCoLC)794327657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000659458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11463206 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10695773 035 $a(PQKB)11403955 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139043090 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC880632 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL880632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565101 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL364071 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103219 100 $a20141103d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWarfare in African history /$fRichard J. Reid$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xxi, 188 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aNew approaches to African history ;$v6 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-12397-6 311 $a0-521-19510-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aThe 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 327 $aMerchant 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 327 $aThe 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 330 $aThis book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and militarism in African political and economic systems. He traces shifts in the culture and practice of war from the first millennium into the era of the external slave trades, and then into the nineteenth century, when a military revolution unfolded across much of Africa. The repercussions of that revolution, as well as the impact of colonial rule, continue to this day. The frequency of coups d'e?tats and civil war in Africa's recent past is interpreted in terms of the continent's deeper past. 410 0$aNew approaches to African history ;$v6. 606 $aMilitary art and science$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aPolitics and war$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aWar and society$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aWar$xEconomic aspects$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aCivil war$zAfrica$xHistory 606 $aCoups d'e?tat$zAfrica$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xHistory, Military 607 $aAfrica$xColonial influence 615 0$aMilitary art and science$xHistory. 615 0$aPolitics and war$xHistory. 615 0$aWar and society$xHistory. 615 0$aWar$xEconomic aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aCivil war$xHistory. 615 0$aCoups d'e?tat$xHistory. 676 $a355.02096 700 $aReid$b Richard J$g(Richard James),$01050552 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452248303321 996 $aWarfare in African history$92480430 997 $aUNINA