States and Power In Africa (ebook)

Argumento de States and Power In Africa (ebook)

Jeffrey Herbst is president of Colgate University.

"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 A brave effort to rethink some outdated approaches to fundamental problems."--Foreign Affairs

"An original and intriguing book, which I read with the greatest interest. Herbst's argument is provocative and lucidly presented. This book will be read and debated not only by Africanists but also by others in the political science community. It is the most important and successful contribution to the literature on African politics since Jackson and Rosberg's Personal Rule in Black Africa."--Robert H. Bates, Harvard University, author of Open-Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade

"Herbst's arguments will excite controversy among students of African history and politics, who have built up an extensive story about European transformations of African politics. His analysis raises doubts about how deeply those transformations went; rather, he maintains that durable conditions of topography and social structure have long constrained African state formation. Herbst offers an integrated account of state formation, transformation, and deformation in sub-Saharan Africa."--Charles Tilly, Columbia University, author of Durable Inquality

Co-Winner of the 2001 Gregory Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association0Preface 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