{"product_id":"unraveling-somalia","title":"Unraveling Somalia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDuring the civil war, scholarly and popular analyses explained Somalia's disintegration as the result of ancestral hatreds played out in warfare between various clans and subclans. In \u003ci\u003eUnraveling Somalia\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Besteman challenges this view and argues that the actual pattern of violence-inflicted disproportionately on rural southerners-contradicts the prevailing model of ethnic homogeneity and clan opposition. She contends that the dissolution of the Somali nation-state can be understood only by recognizing that over the past century and a half there emerged in Somalia a social order based on principles other than simple clan organization-a social order deeply stratified on the basis of race, status, class, region, and language.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Product","offer_id":57399363600728,"sku":"9780812216882","price":33.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780812216882.jpg?v=1780120868","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/unraveling-somalia","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}