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States and power in Africa : comparative lessons in authority and control / Jeffrey Herbst.
LIBRA JQ1875 .H47 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Herbst, Jeffrey Ira, author.
- Series:
- Princeton studies in international history and politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power (Social sciences).
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Africa.
- Politics and government.
- Power (Social sciences)--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xxx, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- New edition, New paperback edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Theories of international relations, assumed to be universally applicable, have tailed to explain the creation of states in Africa. There, the interaction of power and space is dramatically different from what occurred in Europe. In States and Power in Africa, Jeffrey Herbst places the African state-building process in a truly comparative perspective. Herbstis bold contention-that the conditions now lacing African state-builders existed long before European penetration of the continent-is sure to provoke controversy, for it runs counter Co the prevailing assumption that colonialism changed everything. This revised edition includes a new preface in which the author links the enormous changes that have taken place in Africa over the past fifteen years to long-term state consolidation. The final chapter on policy prescriptions has also been revised to reflect the evolution of African and international responses to state failure. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The challenge of state-building in Africa
- Power and space in precolonial Africa
- The Europeans and the African problem
- The political kingdom in independent Africa
- National design and the broadcasting of power
- Chiefs, states, and the land
- The coin of the African realm
- The politics of migration and citizenship
- The past and the future of state power in Africa, revised for the new paperback edition.
- Notes:
- Originally published: ©2000. With new preface and revised chapter nine by the author.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691164142
- 9780691164144
- 0691164134
- 9780691164137
- OCLC:
- 877364829
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