| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 366 pages) : maps |
| Series |
African social studies series ; v. 30
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African social studies series ; v. 30.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Pre-colonial shifting resource borders and ethnic relations, 1800-1908 -- The marking of an imperial frontier : two borders, two states, 1898-1909 -- Tax extractions, imperial relations and responses by frontier nomads, 1908-1935 -- Transfrontier grazing and watering rights : a proxy of border contests, 1908-1935 -- Tigre frontier banditry : a legacy of imperial conquest, 1908-1934 -- Negotiating ethnic conflicts : states and feuding nomads, 1911-1935 -- Fascist italy's conquest of Ethiopia : the Southern Front, 1935-1937 -- A new imperial neighbor on the frontier : the dilemma of coexistence, 1936-1939 -- War, contests and conflicts : a brief collapse of an imperial frontier, 1939-1942 -- The return to imperial frontier politics : the British and Ethiopia, 1942-1948 -- Jeegir banditry : rebellion by frontier nomads, 1941-1943 -- Compensating victims of banditry in 1943 : states and pastoralists -- Political legacies of shifting politics -- Summary. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
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.
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 19th century.
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Kenya -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Ethiopia -- Relations -- Kenya.
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Kenya -- Relations -- Ethiopia.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General. |
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International relations. |
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Land use, Rural. |
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Nomads. |
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Pastoral systems. |
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Politics and government |
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Ethiopia. |
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Kenya. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oba, Gufu. Nomads in the Shadows of Empires : Contests, Conflicts and Legacies on the Southern Ethiopian-Northern Kenyan Frontier. Leiden : BRILL, ©2013 9789004244399 |
| ISBN |
9789004255227 (electronic bk.) |
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9004255222 (electronic bk.) |
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9004244395 |
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9789004244399 |
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9789004244399 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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