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
Dr Richard Reid currently works on the history of warfare and
militarism in Africa. He previously taught at the University of
Asmara in Eritrea, and at Durham University in the UK. He is the
author of several books, including studies of the Kingdom of
Buganda and of warfare in pre-colonial eastern Africa, and a
history of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr
Reid has also published numerous articles on various aspects of war
and militarism in east
and northeast Africa, particularly Eritrea and Ethiopia.
Richard J. Ried is arguably the most gifted historian of Northeast
Africa today, and Frontiers of Violence is undoubtedly his most
significant work yet. Beautifully written and rigorously argued,
this is essential reading for scholars of the Horn of Africa.
*Tricia Redeker Hepner, American Historical Review*
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