Intro -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- (Pre-)Colonial Legacies -- Patrimonial Logic of Centrifugal Forces in the Political History of the Upper Guinea Coast -- Insurrection as Socioeconomic Change: Three Rebellions in Guinea/Sierra Leone in the Eighteenth Century -- Kouankan and the Guinea-Liberian Border -- A Saucy Town? Regional Histories of Conflict, Collusion, and Commerce in the Making of a Southeastern Liberian Polity -- 'Traditional' Jola Peacemaking: From the Perspective of an Historian and an Anthropologist -- Revisiting the Politics of Elite Culture -- The Creole Idea of Nation and its Predicaments: The Case of Guinea-Bissau -- The Mutual Assimilation of Elites: The Development of Secret Societies in Twentieth Century Liberian Politics -- Out of Hiding? Strategies of Empowering the Past in the Reconstruction of Krio Identity -- The Power and Politics of Memories -- Map and Territory: The Politics of Place and Autochthony among Baga Sitem (and their Neighbours) -- The Invention of Bulongic Identity (Guinea-Conakry) -- Victims and Heroes: Manding Historical Imagination in a Conflict-ridden Border Region (Liberia-Guinea) -- Continuity and Change in Intergenerational and Gender Relations -- Are 'Child Soldiers' in Sierra Leone a New Phenomenon? -- Generating Rebels and Soldiers: On the Socio-Economic Crisis of Rural Youth in Sierra Leone before the War -- Index.

This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction impacted by specific historical experiences. Contributions aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms affecting processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.

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