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

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:African social studies series ; v. 30
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Physical Description:xx, 366 p. :; maps.
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Table of 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.