Introduction
Pre-colonial shifting resource borders and ethnic relations, 1800-1908
The marking of an imperial frontier : two borders, two states, 1898-1909
Tax extractions, imperial relations and responses by frontier nomads, 1908-1935
Transfrontier grazing and watering rights : a proxy of border contests, 1908-1935
Tigre frontier banditry : a legacy of imperial conquest, 1908-1934
Negotiating ethnic conflicts : states and feuding nomads, 1911-1935
Fascist italy's conquest of Ethiopia : the Southern Front, 1935-1937
A new imperial neighbor on the frontier : the dilemma of coexistence, 1936-1939
War, contests and conflicts : a brief collapse of an imperial frontier, 1939-1942
The return to imperial frontier politics : the British and Ethiopia, 1942-1948
Jeegir banditry : rebellion by frontier nomads, 1941-1943
Compensating victims of banditry in 1943 : states and pastoralists
Political legacies of shifting politics
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