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States and Power in Africa: Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control
Abstract
Preface to the New Paperback Edition xi Introduction 3 PART ONE: THE CHALLENGE OF STATE-BUILDING IN AFRICA 9 1 The Challenge of State-Building in Africa 11 PART TWO: THE CONSTRUCTION OF STATES IN AFRICA 33 2 Power and Space in Precolonial Africa 35 3 The Europeans and the African Problem 58 4 The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa 97 PART THREE: NATIONAL DESIGN AND DOMESTIC POLITICS 137 5 National Design and the Broadcasting of Power 139 6 Chiefs, States, and the Land 173 PART FOUR: BOUNDARIES AND POWER 199 7 The Coin of the African Realm 201 8 The Politics of Migration and Citizenship 227 PART FIVE: CONCLUSION 249 9 The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa, Revised for the New Paperback Edition 251 Index 273
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- Authors
- Gerhart, G. M., & Herbst, J.
- Venue
- Foreign Affairs
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 2001
- Volume
- 80
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 127
- ISSN
- 0015-7120 (ISSN-L)
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- W1989246932
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- 133.29
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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