TY - BOOK AU - Reid,Richard J. TI - Frontiers of violence in north-east Africa: genealogies of conflict since c.1800 T2 - Zones of violence SN - 9780199211883 : AV - DT373 .R45 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Ethiopia KW - History KW - 1490-1889 KW - 1889-1974 KW - 1974- KW - Eritrea KW - Boundaries N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-304) and index; Prologue : the past in the present -- Setting and approach. Interpreting the region ; The shadows of antiquity -- Violence and imperialism : the 'long' nineteenth century. States of violence, to c. 1870 ; Borderlands, militarism, and the making of empire -- Colonialisms, old and new. Demarcating identity : the European colonial experience, c. 1890-c. 1950 ; The empire of Haile Selassie, c. 1900-74 -- Revolutions, liberations, and the ghosts of the mesafint. Revolution, 'liberation', and militant identity, 1974-91 ; New states, old wars : violence, frontier, and destiny in the modern era -- Epilogue : armed frontiers and militarized margins N2 - Relates violent conflict through the 19th and 20th centuries in the region of Ethiopia and Eritrea and the Sudanese and Somali frontiers to ethnic, political, and religious conflict and the violent state- and empire-building processes which have defined the region ER -