Maji Maji

James Giblin is Professor of African History at the University of Iowa. He is author of two books on Tanzanian history, The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania (1992) and A History of the Excluded (2005).Jamie Monson is Professor of African History at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She has published extensively on Tanzanian history and on the history of Chinese development assistance to Africa. She is the author of Africa's Freedom Railway: How a Chinese Development Project Changed Lives and Livelihoods in Tanzania (Indiana University Press, 2009).

"This impressive collection of essays attempts to supplement and broader the historical data on this important event, extending the period of the study of the war to as early as 1902 and as late as 1910, and broadening the area of conflict far beyond the area earlier studied, most notably far to the west of its purported centre of origins. The new and richly detailed information its contributors provide alters our earlier understanding of the war, not only in terms of new material, but important in terms of showing how much more complex and varied are the questions still to be asked about this conflict. Even our understanding of the name of the war is changed." - T.O. Beidelman, in: Anthropos 106 (2011)