States and power in Africa :

Herbst, Jeffrey Ira

States and power in Africa : comparative lessons in authority and control / Jeffrey Herbst - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000 - x, 280 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm - Princeton studies in international history and politics .

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 and the African realm -- The politics of migration and citizenship -- The past and the future of state power in Africa

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Power (Social sciences)--Africa

Africa --Politics and government

JQ1875 / .H47 2000