Robert B. Edgerton, Author . Westview $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8133-3947-4
This is a deeply disturbing book, precisely because of its author's broad knowledge of, and deep sympathy for, sub-Saharan Africa. Edgerton (The Fall of the Asante Empire) romanticizes both the pre-colonial experience and the pre-independence...
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Robert B. Edgerton, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-30486-7
During the past few years, the Congo, long exploited for its natural resources and among the most corrupt countries in Africa, has been explored by a number of authors. Most of these books have been journalistic accounts, but Edgerton offers a...
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Robert B. Edgerton, Author W. W. Norton & Company $39.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-04085-2
Promising a concise overview of modern Japan's military development, the usually first-rate Edgerton (Like Lions They Fought) here offers little more than a pastiche compiled from Western secondary accounts. After a long discussion of the 1860 Anglo-
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Robert B. Edgerton, Author Free Press $23 (293p) ISBN 978-0-02-908926-2
If the Zulu-British battle in 1879 is the best-known conflict between African colonizer and colonist, the longest war was between the British and the Asante of what is today Ghana, from 1807 to 1900. As UCLA anthropologist Edgerton (Like Lions They...
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Robert B. Edgerton, Author Ballantine Books $9.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-345-36978-9
``Edgerton explains the racially superior attitudes and practices of Kenya's whites that provoked the Mau Mau intimidation. . . . Many of the rebels were ordinary people who did not commit brutal acts but fought as well for political freedom,...
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Robert B. Edgerton, Author Free Press $22.95 (298p) ISBN 978-0-02-908920-0
Portrayed in Western media as a terroristic outbreak of indiscriminate maimings and killings, the Kikuyu rebellion against British settlers in Kenya in 1952-56 is skillfully described and analyzed by a UCLA anthropologist-psychiatrist who has...
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Robert B. Edgerton, Author Basic Books $25 (296p) ISBN 978-0-8133-3858-3
Differing from such standard works as Bernard Nalty's Strength for the Fight (1986) and Gerald Astor's The Right to Fight (1999), this generalist's history focuses on debunking the most controversial aspect of its subject: the racist argument that...
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