Frontiers of violence in north-east Africa: genealogies of conflict since c. 1800

Abstract

Prologue: The Past in the Present PART I: SETTING AND APPROACH 1. Interpreting the region 2. The Shadows of Antiquity PART II: VIOLENCE AND IMPERIALISM: THE 'LONG' NINETEENTH CENTURY 3. States of Violence, to c.1870 4. Borderlands, Militarism and the Making of Empire PART III: COLONIALISMS, OLD AND NEW 5. Demarcating Identity: the European colonial experience, c.1890-c.1950 6. The Empire of Haile Selassie, c.1900-1974 PART IV: REVOLUTIONS, LIBERATIONS, AND THE GHOSTS OF THE MESAFINT 7. Revolution, 'Liberation', and Militant Identity, 1974-1991 8. New States, Old Wars: Violence, frontier, and destiny in the modern era Epilogue: Armed Frontiers and Militarised Margins Bibliography