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In <i>The War Machines</i>, Danny Hoffman considers how young men are made available for violent labor both on the battlefields and in the diamond mines, rubber plantations, and other unregulated industries of West Africa. Based on his ethnographic research with militia groups in Sierra Leone and Liberia during those countries’ recent civil wars, Hoffman traces the path of young fighters who moved from grassroots community-defense organizations in Sierra Leone during the mid-1990s into a large p

Who reads The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia (The Cultures and Practice of Violence Series)?

Author

Danny Hoffman

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283266147

Category

history

Subjects

Political Science, West, History

Rating

4.8 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14