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Title States and Power in Africa [electronic resource] : Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control / Jeffrey Herbst.

Imprint Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2000.

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Description xxx, 280 p. : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 24 cm.
Series Princeton Studies in International History and Politics.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Note Published by Princeton University Press.
New paperback edition, with a new preface and revised chapter nine by the author, 2014.
This book has been composed in Galliard.
Printed on acid-free paper.
Printed in the United States of America.
Contents The Challenge of State-Building in Africa -- The Construction of States in Africa -- National Design and Domestic Politics -- Boundaries and Power -- Conclusion.
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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Subject African.
Added Author G. John Ikenberry, Series Editor.
Marc Trachtenberg, Series Editor.
William C. Wohlforth, Series Editor.
American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780691164144 Paperback
9780691164137 Cloth
9781400852321
Standard No. 2027/heb34113 hdl

 
    
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