African military history /

African military history / edited by John Lamphear.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Other Authors: Lamphear, John (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2016.
Series:International library of essays on military history.
Subjects:
Historiography.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History, Military.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > To 1884.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History > To 1884 > Historiography.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
History.
Military history.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. 'The wars of August : diagonal narrative in African history' / Robert W. Harms (1983)
  • 2. '"He Swalloweth the Ground with Fierceness and Rage" : the horse in the central Sudan' / Humphrey J. Fisher (1973)
  • 3. 'Spears, style and time among Maa-speaking pastoralists' / Roy Larick (1985)
  • 4. 'The view from Awdaghast : war, trade and social change in the Southwestern Saraha, from the eighth to the fifteenth century' / E. Ann McDougall (1985)
  • 5. 'Archers, musketeers and mosquitoes : the Moroccan invasion of the Sudan and the Songhay Resistance (1591-1612)' / LansinĂ© Kaba (1981)
  • 6. 'Portuguese musketeers on the Zambezi' / Richard Gray (1971)
  • 7. 'The art of war in Angola, 1575-1680' / John K. Thornton (1998)
  • 8. 'Dahomey and the slave : reflections on the historiography of the rise of Dahomey' / Robin Law (1986)
  • 9. 'Horses, firearms, and political power in pre-colonial West Africa' / Robin Law (1976)
  • 10. 'The impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Western Sudan' / Martin A. Klien (1990)
  • 11. 'The sacred musket : tactics, technology and power in eighteenth-century Madagascar' / Gerald M. Berg (1985)
  • 12. 'Sources of conflict in Southern Africa, c. 1800-30 : the "Mfecane" reconsidered' / Elizabeth A. Eldredge (1992)
  • 13. '"The Character and Objects of Chaka" : a reconsideration of the making of Shaka as "Mfecane" motor' / Carolyn Anne Hamilton (1992)
  • 14. 'Firearms in South Central Africa' / Anthony Atmore, J.M. Chirenje and S.I. Mudenge (1971)
  • 15. 'Military organization and the pre-colonial polity of the Bemba of Zambia' / A.L. Epstein (1975)
  • 16. 'Professional warriors in nineteenth-century Yoruba politics' / J.F.A. Ajayi (1968)
  • 17. 'Production and reproduction of warrior states : Segu Bambara and Segu Tokolor, c.1712-1890' / Richard L. Roberts (1980)
  • 18. 'Firearms and princely power in Ethiopia in the nineteenth century' / R.A. Caulk (1972)
  • 19. '"For God, Emperor, and Country!" : the evolution of Ethiopia's nineteenth-century army' / John Dunn (1994)
  • 20. 'War and militarism in pre-colonial Buganda' / Richard Reid (1999)
  • 21. 'The Wasaki War : an oral narrative of Southwestern Kenya' / Michael G. Kenny (1979)
  • 22. 'War, famine and pestilence in late pre-colonial Tanzania : a case for heightened mortality' / Juhani Koponen (1988)

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