1. The contours of violence: environment, economy, and polity in African warfare
2. Arms in Africa's antiquity: patterns and systems of warfare, to the early second millennium CE
3. The military foundations of state and society, to circa 1600
4. Destruction and construction, circa 1600-circa 1800
5. Transformations in violence: military revolution and the 'long' nineteenth century
6. Revolutions incomplete: the old and the new in the modern era.
Warfare in African history by Richard J. Reid. ISBN 9780521123976. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.