Politics and Violence in Eastern Africa - The Struggles of Emerging States (Hardcover)

Over the fifty years between 1940 and 1990, the countries of eastern Africa were embroiled in a range of debilitating and destructive conflicts, starting with the wars of independence, but then incorporating rebellion, secession and local insurrection as the Cold War replaced colonialism. The articles gathered here illustrate how significant, widespread, and dramatic this violence was. In these years, violence was used as a principal instrument in the creation and consolidation of the authority of the state; and it was also regularly and readily utilised by those who wished to challenge state authority through insurrection and secession. Why was it that eastern Africa should have experienced such extensive and intensive violence in the fifty years before 1990? Was this resort to violence a consequence of imperial rule, the legacy of oppressive colonial domination under a coercive and non-representative state system? Did essential contingencies such as the Cold War provoke and promote the use of violence? Or, was it a choice made by Africans themselves and their leaders, a product of their own agency? This book focuses on these turbulent decades, exploring the principal conflicts in six key countries - Kenya, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Tanzania. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Eastern African Studies.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2015
First published:	2015
Editors:	David M. Anderson • Oystein H Rolandsen
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-84666-1
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Revolutions & coups Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political activism > Armed conflict Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > General
LSN:	1-138-84666-X
Barcode:	9781138846661

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