Nomads in the Shadows of Empires : Contests, Conflicts and Legacies on the Southern Ethiopian-Northern Kenyan Frontier

Introduction -- Pre-colonial Shifting Resource Borders And Ethnic Relations, 1800-1908 -- The Marking Of An Imperial Frontier : Two Borders, Two States, 1898-1909 -- Tax Extractions, Imperial Relations And Responses By Frontier Nomads, 1908-1935 -- Transfrontier Grazing And Watering Rights : A Proxy Of Border Contests, 1908-1935 -- Tigre Frontier Banditry : A Legacy Of Imperial Conquest, 1908-1934 -- Negotiating Ethnic Conflicts : States And Feuding Nomads, 1911-1935 -- Fascist Italy's Conquest Of Ethiopia : The Southern Front, 1935-1937 -- A New Imperial Neighbor On The Frontier : The Dilemma Of Coexistence, 1936-1939 -- War, Contests And Conflicts : A Brief Collapse Of An Imperial Frontier, 1939-1942 -- The Return To Imperial Frontier Politics : The British And Ethiopia, 1942-1948 -- Jeegir Banditry : Rebellion By Frontier Nomads, 1941-1943 -- Compensating Victims Of Banditry In 1943 : States And Pastoralists -- Political Legacies Of Shifting Politics -- Summary. By Gufu Oba. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.