Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History

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 Herder Warfare in East Africa presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare a few of the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long dureé facilitates figuring out of ways warfare among pastoralist communities in in advance centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts around the grazing lands in East Africa. The book discusses herder warfare from the standpoint of warfare ecology, highlighting the interrelations between environmental and cultural causalities – including droughts, famine, floods, ritual wars, spiritual wars and migrations – and the processes and consequences of war. Regional synthesis concentrates on frontiers of conflicts extending from the White Nile Basin in south Sudan – into the southern savannas of East Africa, the Great East African Rift Valley, and the northern and southern Horn of Africa – examining historical military power shifts between diverse pastoralist cultures. Case studies are set within the coastal hinterland of East Africa and the Jubaland-Wajir frontiers. Warfare combined with environmental screw ups caused social-economic breakdowns and the enslavement of defeated groups. The dynamics of herder warfare changed after colonial entry, response to pastoralist resistance and slave emancipation. The book is of interest to specialist and non-specialist readers exploring pastoralism, social anthropology and warfare and conflict studies; and is acceptable for introductory graduate courses in environmental and social history of warfare .

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