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Nation of outlaws, state of violence : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon / Meredith Terretta.
- Title
- Nation of outlaws, state of violence : nationalism, Grassfields tradition, and state building in Cameroon / Meredith Terretta.
- Author
- Terretta, Meredith
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2013.
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- Description
- xiv, 367 pages : maps; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- New African histories
- Uniform Title
- New African histories series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- God, land, justice, and political sovereignty in Grassfields governance -- "Bamileke strangers" make the Mungo River Valley their home -- Troublesome, rebellious, outlawed : international politics and UPC nationalism in the Bamileke and Mungo regions -- Nationalists or traitors? : Bamileke chiefs and electoral politics in the year of loi-cadre -- The maquis at home, exile abroad : Grassfields warfare meets revolutionary Pan-Africanism -- "Here, God does not exist" : emergency law and the violence of state building -- Conclusion : "after the war, we stop counting the dead" : reconciliation and public confession.
- ISBN
- 9780821420690 (pb : alk. paper)
- 0821420690 (pb : alk. paper)
- 9780821444726 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2013030968
- OCLC
- 870313126
- SCSB-11941644
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library