Description |
1 online resource (vii, 233 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction -- Deep time, modern consequences -- Frontiers : mountains and plains -- States, frontiers and enslavement -- Kalashnikovs, cell phones and motorcycles -- Placing Boko Haram -- Pasts, parallels and the future -- Reprise: timescales -- Reprise: states, people and violence -- Reprise: Boko Haram on the borders -- Songs of smugglers and bandits -- The future. |
Summary |
This book provides much-needed historical context to the recent rise of Boko Haram, which has terrorised northeastern Nigeria through the last six years. It particularly examines the links between Boko Haram and borderland phenomena --especially slave-raiding, banditry, and smuggling--in this region during the last millennium. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Boko Haram.
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Boko Haram. |
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Terrorist organizations -- Nigeria.
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Terrorist organizations. |
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Nigeria. |
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam -- Nigeria.
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Terrorism -- Religious aspects -- Islam. |
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Insurgency -- Nigeria.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure. |
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Insurgency. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: MacEachern, Scott. Searching for Boko Haram. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018 9780190492526 (DLC) 2017049317 |
ISBN |
9780190492533 (electronic book) |
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0190492538 (electronic book) |
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019049252X |
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9780190492526 |
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9780190492540 |
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0190492546 |
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9780190492526 (hardcover alkaline paper) |
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