POLI 352 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Early Modern Europe, Chessboard, National Myth
9 Jan 2022
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Jan8: dynamics of african state formation (pre-colonial roots) Herbst: precolonial state formation in africa vs. europe. Interstate war as state-building mechanism: herbst: fighting wars is the only way whereby people will pay more taxes and at the same time feel more closely associated with the state. Lack of strong states made interstate war unlikely: this deprived sub-saharan africa of taxation, conscription, and nationalism. It was the exception to the rule (regarding the lack of state centralization across pre-colonial africa) In mid-19th century, it had followed a state-formation trajectory similar to european powers (power centralization and consolidation: undertook a modernization of their state; organized under a feudal system of land ownership. Including modernizing army, acquiring weaponry, exchanged italian prisoners captured at adwa for a treaty recognizing its sovereignty (no further european incursions: one of longest holding states until mussolini"s 1935 invasion.
