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Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History (Hardcover)
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Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History (Hardcover)
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Herder Warfare in East Africa presents a regional analysis of the
spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of
East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long duree
facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist
communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic
and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa. The book
discusses herder warfare from the perspective of warfare ecology,
highlighting the interrelations between environmental and cultural
causalities - including droughts, famine, floods, ritual wars,
religious wars and migrations - and the processes and consequences
of war. Regional synthesis concentrates on frontiers of conflicts
extending from the White Nile Basin in south Sudan - into the
southern savannas of East Africa, the Great East African Rift
Valley, and the northern and southern Horn of Africa - examining
historical military power shifts between diverse pastoralist
cultures. Case studies are set in the coastal hinterland of East
Africa and the Jubaland-Wajir frontiers. Warfare combined with
environmental disasters caused social-economic breakdowns and the
enslavement of defeated groups. The dynamics of herder warfare
changed after colonial entry, response to pastoralist resistance
and slave emancipation. The book is of interest to specialist and
non-specialist readers exploring pastoralism, social anthropology
and warfare and conflict studies; and is suitable for introductory
graduate courses in environmental and social history of warfare .
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