Nomads in the shadows of empires contests, conflicts and legacies on the southern Ethiopian-northern Kenyan frontier

Title:

Nomads in the shadows of empires contests, conflicts and legacies on the southern Ethiopian-northern Kenyan frontier

Author:

Oba, Gufu.

Personal Author:

Oba, Gufu.

Publication Information:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Physical Description:

xx, 366 p. : maps.

Series:

African social studies series ; v. 30

Series Title:

African social studies series ; v. 30

Contents:

Introduction -- Pre-colonial shifting resource borders and ethnic relations, 1800-1908 -- The marking of an imperial frontier : two borders, two states, 1898-1909 -- Tax extractions, imperial relations and responses by frontier nomads, 1908-1935 -- Transfrontier grazing and watering rights : a proxy of border contests, 1908-1935 -- Tigre frontier banditry : a legacy of imperial conquest, 1908-1934 -- Negotiating ethnic conflicts : states and feuding nomads, 1911-1935 -- Fascist italy's conquest of Ethiopia : the Southern Front, 1935-1937 -- A new imperial neighbor on the frontier : the dilemma of coexistence, 1936-1939 -- War, contests and conflicts : a brief collapse of an imperial frontier, 1939-1942 -- The return to imperial frontier politics : the British and Ethiopia, 1942-1948 -- Jeegir banditry : rebellion by frontier nomads, 1941-1943 -- Compensating victims of banditry in 1943 : states and pastoralists -- Political legacies of shifting politics -- Summary.

Subject Term:

Nomads -- Ethiopia.

Nomads -- Kenya.

Pastoral systems -- Ethiopia.

Pastoral systems -- Kenya.

Land use, Rural -- Ethiopia.

Land use, Rural -- Kenya.

Geographic Term:

Ethiopia -- Politics and government -- 19th century.

Ethiopia -- Politics and government.

Kenya -- Politics and government -- 19th century.

Kenya -- Politics and government -- 20th century.