| Ethnicity Kills?: The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in Subsaharan Africa 2000 Edition Contributor(s): Braathen, E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0312229887 ISBN-13: 9780312229887 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2000 Annotation: The two main arguments in the book are to contest the reduction of African civil wars to ethnic conflicts, and to point out the emergence of civil wars as the result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the "other" has entailed that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book aims at bringing the political power struggle as it evolves around the state to the forefront in analyses of civil wars and societal conflict. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - Central - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - History | Africa - General |
| Dewey: 967.04 |
| LCCN: 99046784 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.93 lbs) 223 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The two main arguments in the book are to contest the reduction of African civil wars to ethnic conflicts, and to point out the emergence of civil wars as the result of political struggles. The construction of Africa as the "other" has entailed that factors commonly used to explain war elsewhere have been neglected in Sub-Saharan Africa. The book aims at bringing the political power struggle as it evolves around the state to the forefront in analyses of civil wars and societal conflict. |