E. KURIMOTO & A. TRIULZI
Southern Marches of Imperial Ethiopia
Edited by DONALD L. DONHAM & WENDY JAMES
A Modem History of the Somali
(4th edn)
I.M. LEWIS
Islands of Intensive Agriculture in East Africa
Edited by MATS WIDGREN & JOHN E.G. SUTTON
Leaf of Allah
EZEKIEL GEBISSA
Dhows & the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar 1860–1970
ERIK GILBERT
African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya
TABITHA KANOGO
African Underclass
ANDREW BURTON
In Search of a Nation
Edited by GREGORY H. MADDOX & JAMES L. GIBLIN
A History of the Excluded
JAMES L. GIBLIN
Black Poachers, White Hunters
EDWARD I. STEINHART
Ethnic Federalism
DAVID TURTON
Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro
SHANE DOYLE
Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa
JAN-GEORG DEUTSCH
Women, Work & Domestic Virtue in Uganda 1900–2003
GRACE BANTEBYA KYOMUHENDO & MARJORIE KENISTON McINTOSH
Cultivating Success in Uganda
GRACE CARSWELL
War in Pre-Colonial Eastern Africa
RICHARD REID
Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa
Edited by HENRI MÉDARD & SHANE DOYLE
A Modern History of the
SOMALI
Nation and State in the Horn of Africa
FOURTH EDITION
I.M. LEWIS
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology
London School of Economics
James Currey OXFORD
Ohio University Press ATHENS
eBook edition published 2016
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© I.M. Lewis 1965, 1980, 1988 & 2002
Fourth edition published 2002
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Originally published in
The Modern History of Somaliland: From Nation to State Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1965 First edition A Modern History of Somaliland: Nation & State in the Horn of Africa Longman 1980 Second edition A Modern History of Somalia: Nation & State in the Horn of Africa Westview 1988 Third edition
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data available on request
ISBN 978-0-85255-483-8 (James Currey Paper)
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ISBN 10: 0-8214-1495-X (Ohio University Press Paper)
ISBN 13: 978-0-8214-1495-8 (Ohio University Press Paper)
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CONTENTS
Chapter
I. The Physical and Social Setting
III. The Imperial Partition: 1860–97
IV. The Dervish Fight for Freedom: 1900–20
V. Somali Unification: The Italian East African Empire
