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Warfare in African history /
This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy. Richard J. Reid helps students understand different patterns of military organization through Africa's history; the evolution of weaponry, tactics, and strategy; and the increasing prevalence of warfare and m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | New approaches to African history ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The contours of violence: environment, economy, and polity in African warfare
- 2. Arms in Africa's antiquity: patterns and systems of warfare, to the early second millennium CE
- 3. The military foundations of state and society, to circa 1600
- 4. Destruction and construction, circa 1600-circa 1800
- 5. Transformations in violence: military revolution and the 'long' nineteenth century
- 6. Revolutions incomplete: the old and the new in the modern era.