The findings so far certainly support the contention that, far from being inherently limited, traditional warfare in the region was as common and lethal as in any other part of the world. The goal has been to explore the historical evolution of the military systems of a wide range of East African societies from about the 1770s to the 1890s, and, in the process, to propose a major modification of the prevailing notion of a “pacified” African past, as well as to suggest historical continuity between precolonial conflict and contemporary “ragged warfare.” The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation made possible archival research in the U.K., France, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, and field research in Uganda, to collect data for the first macrocosmic history of traditional organized violence in East Africa, as well as the analysis and organization of that data in anticipation of writing the manuscript itself.
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