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Of interest to researchers of pre-colonial African history,
military history, and anyone involved in modern development and
conflict resolution seeking to understand the deeper historical
roots of African warfare. This is an examination of the nature and
objectives of conflict in the major states of Eastern Africa in the
nineteenth century. It focuses on highland Ethiopia, on the
interlacustrine area of Buganda and its neighbours, and on the area
of central Tanzania from the south of Lake Victoria to Lake
Tanganyika. RICHARD REID is Lecturer in African History at SOAS
Published in association with The British Institute in Eastern
Africa North America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers;
Kenya: EAEP
Anzac Battlefield: A Gallipoli Landscape of War and Memory explores
the transformation of Gallipoli's landscape in antiquity, during
the famed battles of the First World War and in the present day.
Drawing on archival, archaeological and cartographic material, this
book unearths the deep history of the Gallipoli peninsula, setting
the Gallipoli campaign in a broader cultural and historical
context. The book presents the results of an original
archaeological survey, the research for which was supported by the
Australian, New Zealand and Turkish Governments. The survey
examines materials from both sides of the battlefield, and sheds
new light on the environment in which Anzac and Turkish soldiers
endured the conflict. Richly illustrated with both Ottoman and
Anzac archival images and maps, as well as original maps and
photographs of the landscape and archaeological findings, Anzac
Battlefield is an important contribution to our understanding of
Gallipoli and its landscape of war and memory.
This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia,
fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods
immediately preceding and following the conflict. 'Shallow Graves'
traces shifting local perceptions of time, the nation and the
region, beginning in the mid-1990s and concluding with the peace
agreement signed between the two governments in 2018. Richard Reid
is a historian who was based in Eritrea during the war, and who
continued to visit both that country and Ethiopia for several years
afterwards. This personal perspective offers a more vivid, intimate
portrait of the experience of the war than can normally be offered
by putatively 'objective' academic accounts. As well as providing
first-hand reportage and analysis, Reid problematises the role of
the historian--and specifically the foreign historian--as the
supposedly impartial observer of events. His eloquent narrative,
constructed around conversations and interactions with a range of
local witnesses, friends and colleagues, explores the impact of
prolonged war and its aftermath--both on private and public memory,
and on the nature of history itself.
This study tells the story of Buganda's society, economy and
culture. Buganda was one of the most favoured of East Africa's
inter-lacustrine kingdoms. Blessed with fertile and well-watered
soil, capable of supporting a relatively dense population, it
became a major regional power by the mid-19th century. North
America: Ohio U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers
The atrocities and betrayals John Ralston has seen in forty years
of UN field work - teachers raped, acid thrown in the faces of aid
workers, murderous leaders getting rich while children die - have
given him a short fuse. That fuse ignites a year into his
retirement when his daughter is abducted and mutilated in Uganda by
a religious terrorist army. Ralston plans a quiet mission of
retribution that will free his daughter and get him close enough to
the terrorist leader, Joseph Koni - The Redeemer - to kill him. But
before he can move, two big players with their own motives for
annihilating Koni and his group - the governments of Iran and the
USA - crowd into the action, side by side. Each page crackles with
tension as we witness the siege of the terrorist base, follow
Ralston as he tracks the escaped Koni along a riverbank, and watch
the Iranians hunt down Engineer Nasrullah, Koni's Afghan adviser,
the killer of a revered ayatollah. seats at Taleban assassinations
and the horrific branding rites of Koni's army - but also riveting
images of beauty and bravery in scenes stretching from Afghanistan
to the Congo. Richard Reid worked with the UN and other
international organisations for twenty-six years. He now lives in
Istanbul, where he teaches university courses in humanities and
international relations.
The Oxford Handbook of Modern African History represents an
invaluable tool for historians and others in the field of African
studies. This collection of essays, produced by some of the finest
scholars currently working in the field, provides the latest
insights into, and interpretations of, the history of Africa - a
continent with a rich and complex past. An understanding of this
past is essential to gain perspective on Africa's current
challenges, and this accessible and comprehensive volume will allow
readers to explore various aspects - political, economic, social,
and cultural - of the continent's history over the last two hundred
years. Since African history first emerged as a serious academic
endeavour in the 1950s and 1960s, it has undergone numerous shifts
in terms of emphasis and approach, changes brought about by
political and economic exigencies and by ideological debates. This
multi-faceted Handbook is essential reading for anyone with an
interest in those debates, and in Africa and its peoples. While the
focus is determinedly historical, anthropology, geography, literary
criticism, political science and sociology are all employed in this
ground-breaking study of Africa's past.
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