Warfare in African History

Warfare in African History
Author: Richard J. Reid
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2012-04-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521195101

This book examines the role of war in shaping the African state, society, and economy by tracing shifts in the culture and practice of war.

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800
Author: John K. Thornton
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 209
Release: 1999-08-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1135365849

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa

Foreign Intervention in Africa

Foreign Intervention in Africa
Author: Elizabeth Schmidt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2013-03-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521882389

This book chronicles foreign political and military interventions in Africa from 1956 to 2010, helping readers understand the historical roots of Africa's problems.

War and Conflict in Africa

War and Conflict in Africa
Author: Paul D. Williams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1509509089

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop them? In this fully revised and updated second edition of his popular text, Paul Williams offers an in-depth and wide-ranging assessment of more than six hundred armed conflicts which took place in Africa from 1990 to the present day - from the continental catastrophe in the Great Lakes region to the sprawling conflicts across the Sahel and the web of wars in the Horn of Africa. Taking a broad comparative approach to examine the political contexts in which these wars occurred, he explores the major patterns of organized violence, the key ingredients that provoked them and the major international responses undertaken to deliver lasting peace. Part I, Contexts provides an overview of the most important attempts to measure the number, scale and location of Africa's armed conflicts and provides a conceptual and political sketch of the terrain of struggle upon which these wars were waged. Part II, Ingredients analyses the role of five widely debated features of Africa's wars: the dynamics of neopatrimonial systems of governance; the construction and manipulation of ethnic identities; questions of sovereignty and self-determination; as well as the impact of natural resources and religion. Part III, Responses, discusses four major international reactions to Africa's wars: attempts to build a new institutional architecture to help promote peace and security on the continent; this architecture's two main policy instruments, peacemaking initiatives and peace operations; and efforts to develop the continent. War and Conflict in Africa will be essential reading for all students of international peace and security studies as well as Africa's international relations.

A Military History of Africa

A Military History of Africa
Author: Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1279
Release: 2013-10-21
Genre: History
ISBN:

A detailed and thorough chronological overview of the history of warfare and military structures in Africa, covering ancient times to the present day. A Military History of Africa achieves a daunting task: it synthesizes decades of specialized academic research and literature—including the most recent material—to offer an accessible survey of Africa's military history, from the earliest times to the present day. The first volume examines the precolonial period beginning with warfare in ancient North Africa including ancient Egypt and Carthage and continues through the cavalry-based Muslim empires of the trans-Sahara trade and the wars of the slave trade in West and East Africa. The second volume focuses on the wars of European colonial conquest and African resistance during the late 19th century, African participation in both world wars, and the early violent struggles for independence from the 1950s and early 1960s. The third volume explores warfare in postcolonial Africa, including coverage of the impact of the global Cold War, conflicts in Southern Africa from the 1960s to 1980s, the development of postcolonial African armed forces, and civil wars sparked by the discovery of precious resources, such as diamonds in Sierra Leone. Readers of this three-volume work will understand how warfare and military structures have been consistently central to the development of African societies.

The African Wars

The African Wars
Author: Chris Peers
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9781848841215

"Provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. [The author] describes in ... detail the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics"--Jacket.

Warfare in the Eighteenth Century

Warfare in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780304362127

It was the century of American independence, of warfare between France and Prussia, of invading Mongols in Tibet. The most successful power anywhere was China; the largest land battles took place in India. All around the globe, using weaponry from muskets to the bow-and-arrow, conflicts raged: in a way, these were the first "world wars." Sometimes troubles on the edges of empire triggered new battles in Europe, and the balance of power shifted as France weakened and Frederick the Great established Prussia as a major new force. From the forests of New England to the Philippines, the diverse campaigns covered here portray developments in every society, on land and on sea, and reveal how new policies arose with the growth of colonialism.

War in Pre-colonial Eastern Africa

War in Pre-colonial Eastern Africa
Author: Richard J. Reid
Publisher: James Currey
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781847016041

A history of pre-colonial warfare in eastern Africa. Contents include: 'Tools & Tactics', 'Organisation & Fuction', 'Violence & Society' and 'The Culture of Conflict'.