Nomads in the shadows of empires [electronic resource] : contests, conflicts and legacies on the southern Ethiopian-northern Kenyan frontier / by Gufu Oba.

By: Oba, GufuContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: African social studies series ; v. 30Publication details: Boston : Brill, 2013Description: xx, 366 p. : mapsISBN: 9789004255227 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Nomads -- Ethiopia | Nomads -- Kenya | Pastoral systems -- Ethiopia | Pastoral systems -- Kenya | Land use, Rural -- Ethiopia | Land use, Rural -- Kenya | Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Ethiopia -- Politics and government | Kenya -- Politics and government -- 19th century | Kenya -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Ethiopia -- Relations -- Kenya | Kenya -- Relations -- EthiopiaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 963.0086918 LOC classification: GN650.5.E8 | O33 2013Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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