Jihad and State-Building in Late Nineteenth Century Upper Volta: The Rise and Fall of the Marka State of Al- Kari of Boussé

1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron J. Echenberg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
State Building ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Upper Volta

Legal Exceptionalism in Egypt’s Borderlands

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew H. Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Political Geography ◽  
Historical Geography ◽  
State Building ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Territorial Sovereignty ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter opens with a brief overview of the historical geography of the Egyptian West, highlighting the diversity within the region’s human and physical landscapes. It then moves on to illustrate the uneven political geography of the Egyptian nation-state in the late nineteenth century by highlighting two salient themes: the persistence of legal exceptionalism in the western oases and other desert territories, even after Egypt’s state-wide judicial reforms starting in the 1870s; and the state’s fraught efforts to standardize its policy vis-à-vis Egypt’s bedouin population around the country. Both these themes illustrate the emergence of Egypt’s borderlands as enclaves of exceptionalism within the emergent Egyptian nation-state. Accordingly, the chapter questions prevailing notions of territorial sovereignty in the nineteenth century and argues against normative Euro-centric top-down frameworks for understanding the process of state-building in the period.

Brigands and State Building: The Invention of Banditry in Modern Egypt

1990 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Brown
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
State Building ◽  
Public Security ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
Local Protection ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Protection Rackets ◽  
Modern Egypt

A late nineteenth-century epidemic of banditry seems to have swept through the Egyptian countryside, at least according to the writings and actions of influential Egyptians at that time. Contemporary newspapers recounted daily episodes in which gangs composed of between six and sixty or seventy members raided large estates, robbed travelling merchants, and organized local protection rackets. The threat to public security drew the greatest attention in the decade following the British occupation of Egypt in 1882.

Late nineteenth-century military technology in Upper Volta

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myron J. Echenberg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Military Technology ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Upper Volta

Military organization and technology have been important factors in the history of Upper Volta. The innovation of the horse in the fifteenth century as an instrument of war played an important part in the establishment of the Mossi states, formed as they were by conquering cavalry from Mamprusi. In the late nineteenth century, the new innovation of firearms threatened to contribute to equally significant political change in the region.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

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