Awards

• Joint winner for APSA Comparative Politics Section Gregory Luebbert Book Award 2001.
• Joint winner of APSA Comparative Politics Section Gregory Luebbert Book Award 2001
• Joint winner of Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section, American Political Science Association 2001 (United States)

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Author:   Jeffrey Herbst ,  Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   Second Edition
Volume:   149
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780691164137

ISBN 10:   0691164134
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   21 December 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

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

Reviews

Co-Winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association This ambitious and original book turns a comparative historical lens on state-building in Africa... A brave effort to rethink some outdated approaches to fundamental problems. --Foreign Affairs

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Jeffrey Herbst is president of Colgate University.

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