Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire

In Soldier's Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa's military dictators tried and...
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Author: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
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Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire by Daly, Samuel Fury Childs

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire

BD$68.84

Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire

BD$68.84
Author: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In Soldier's Paradise, Samuel Fury Childs Daly tells the story of how Africa's military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Across the continent, independence was followed by a wave of military coups and revolutions. The soldiers who led them had a vision. In Nigeria and other former British colonies, officers governed like they fought battles--to them, politics was war by other means. Civilians were subjected to military-style discipline, which was indistinguishable from tyranny. Soldiers promised law and order, and they saw judges as allies in their mission to make society more like an army. But law was not the disciplinary tool soldiers thought it was. Using legal records, archival documents, and memoirs, Daly shows how law both enabled militarism and worked against it. For Daly, the law is a place to see decolonization's tensions and ironies--independence did not always mean liberty, and freedom had a militaristic streak. In a moment when militarism is again on the rise in Africa, Daly describes not just where it came from but why it lasted so long.

Author: Samuel Fury Childs Daly
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 10/04/2024
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d
ISBN: 9781478030836

About the Author
Samuel Fury Childs Daly is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago and author of A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War.

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