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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Oba, Gufu.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: African social studies series ; v. 30
• Physical Description: xx, 366 p. :; maps.
• Other title: 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.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789004244399 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9789004255227 (electronic bk.)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Gufu Oba.