In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires Gufu Oba presents accounts of why the legacies of banditry and ethnic conflicts have proved so difficult to resolve along th

In Nomads in the Shadows of Empires, Gufu Oba offers accounts of the outcomes of imperial state contests over trans-frontier treaty, nomads grazing and watering

"Nomadic Empires sheds new light on 2,000 years of military history and geopolitics. The Mongol Empire of Genghis-Khan and his heirs, as is well known, was the

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world’s first great empires established by the ancient

In the context of growing global concerns about climate change, this book presents a regional and sub-continental synthesis of pastoralists' responses to past e