Dr Richard Reid currently works on the history of warfare and militarism in Africa. He previously taught at the University of Asmara in Eritrea, and at Durham University in the UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of the Kingdom of Buganda and of warfare in pre-colonial eastern Africa, and a history of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr Reid has also published numerous articles on various aspects of war and militarism in east and northeast Africa, particularly Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Richard J. Ried is arguably the most gifted historian of Northeast Africa today, and Frontiers of Violence is undoubtedly his most significant work yet. Beautifully written and rigorously argued, this is essential reading for scholars of the Horn of Africa.

• Prologue: The Past in the Present ; PART I: SETTING AND APPROACH ; 1. Interpreting the region ; 2. The Shadows of Antiquity ; PART II: VIOLENCE AND IMPERIALISM: THE 'LONG' NINETEENTH CENTURY ; 3. States of Violence, to c.1870 ; 4. Borderlands, Militarism and the Making of Empire ; PART III: COLONIALISMS, OLD AND NEW ; 5. Demarcating Identity: the European colonial experience, c.1890-c.1950 ; 6. The Empire of Haile Selassie, c.1900-1974 ; PART IV: REVOLUTIONS, LIBERATIONS, AND THE GHOSTS OF THE MESAFINT ; 7. Revolution, 'Liberation', and Militant Identity, 1974-1991 ; 8. New States, Old Wars: Violence, frontier, and destiny in the modern era ; Epilogue: Armed Frontiers and Militarised Margins ; Bibliography

Dr Richard Reid currently works on the history of warfare and militarism in Africa. He previously taught at the University of Asmara in Eritrea, and at Durham University in the UK. He is the author of several books, including studies of the Kingdom of Buganda and of warfare in pre-colonial eastern Africa, and a history of Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr Reid has also published numerous articles on various aspects of war and militarism in east and northeast Africa, particularly Eritrea and Ethiopia.

Richard J. Ried is arguably the most gifted historian of Northeast Africa today, and Frontiers of Violence is undoubtedly his most significant work yet. Beautifully written and rigorously argued, this is essential reading for scholars of the Horn of Africa.

• Prologue: The Past in the Present ; PART I: SETTING AND APPROACH ; 1. Interpreting the region ; 2. The Shadows of Antiquity ; PART II: VIOLENCE AND IMPERIALISM: THE 'LONG' NINETEENTH CENTURY ; 3. States of Violence, to c.1870 ; 4. Borderlands, Militarism and the Making of Empire ; PART III: COLONIALISMS, OLD AND NEW ; 5. Demarcating Identity: the European colonial experience, c.1890-c.1950 ; 6. The Empire of Haile Selassie, c.1900-1974 ; PART IV: REVOLUTIONS, LIBERATIONS, AND THE GHOSTS OF THE MESAFINT ; 7. Revolution, 'Liberation', and Militant Identity, 1974-1991 ; 8. New States, Old Wars: Violence, frontier, and destiny in the modern era ; Epilogue: Armed Frontiers and Militarised Margins ; Bibliography