States and Power in Africa : Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control / Jeffrey Herbst.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2000.

xxx, 280 pages : Grayscale Illustration, Tables ; 24 cm.

Published by Princeton University Press.

New paperback edition, with a new preface and revised chapter nine by the author, 2014.

This book has been composed in Galliard.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

The Challenge of State-Building in Africa -- The Construction of States in Africa -- National Design and Domestic Politics -- Boundaries and Power -- Conclusion.

The Challenge of State-Building in Africa -- Power and Space in Precolonial Africa -- The Europeans and the African Problem -- The Political Kingdom in Independent Africa -- National Design and the Broadcasting of Power -- Chiefs, States, and the Land -- The Coin of the African Realm -- The Politics of Migration and Citizenship -- The Past and the Future of State Power in Africa Revised for the New Paperback Edition.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])