Lineages of State Fragility: Rural Civil Society in Guinea-Bissau

Introduction - I THE PRECOLONIAL CONTEXT & THE AFRO-EUROPEAN ENCOUNTER Indigenous polities & intersocietal relations in precolonial Guinea-Bissau - Overview of Portuguese-African political relations & warfare 1446-1890 - African kingdoms at war, changing Fulbe alliances & Portuguese aggression 1840s-1910 II VANQUISHED STATE, TERRORIST STATE The vanquished state: multiethnic resistance & the great siege of Bissau, 1890s-1909 - The terrorist state: conquest through mercenary pillage III THE 'SETTLED' COLONIAL PERIOD Military resistance to state building, 1923-1950 - Sociocultural aspects of a strong rural civil society, 1920-1960 - The colonial state & the informal economic sector IV WAR & THE POSTCOLONIAL STATE Rural civil society's multiethnic mobilization for independence - Postcolonial legacies: weak state, strong civil society - The postcolonial state, economy & renewed war - Conclusions.