Helen Chapin Metz, ed. Somalia: A Country Study. Washington: GPO for the Library of Congress, 1992.

History
ORIGINS, MIGRATIONS, AND SETTLEMENT
Coastal Towns
Emergence of Adal
Mogadishu and Its Banaadir Hinterlands
The Somali Peninsula on the Eve of Imperial Partition
The Majeerteen Sultanates
IMPERIAL PARTITION
Dervish Resistance to Colonial Occupation
Consolidation of Colonial Rule
Somalia During World War II
British Military Administration
Trusteeship and Protectorate: The Road to Independence
FROM INDEPENDENCE TO REVOLUTION
Problems of National Integration
Pan-Somalism
Foreign Relations, 1960-69
The Husseen Government
The Igaal Government
Coup d'Etat
THE REVOLUTIONARY REGIME
Supreme Revolutionary Council
Challenges to the Regime
Siad Barre and Scientific Socialism
The Language and Literacy Issue
Creation of the Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party
SOMALIA'S DIFFICULT DECADE, 1980-90
Entrenching Siad Barre's Personal Rule
Siad Barre's Repressive Measures
Persecution of the Majeerteen
Oppression of the Isaaq
Harrying of the Hawiye

The Society and Its Environment
GEOGRAPHY
Climate
Terrain, Vegetation, and Drainage
POPULATION
THE SOCIAL ORDER
Samaal
Digil and Rahanwayn
Riverine and Coastal People of Non-Somali Origin
Specialized Occupational Groups
Social Change
Lineage Segmentation and Civil War
RELIGION
The Tenets of Islam
Religious Roles in Somali Islam
Religious Orders and the Cult of the Saints
Folk Islam and Indigenous Ritual
Islam in the Colonial Era and After
Rising Islamism
LANGUAGE 
EDUCATION
HEALTH
REFUGEES
BREAKDOWN

The Economy
Pastoralism and Commerce in Historical Perspective
The Colonial Economy
Economic Development, 1960-69
Scientific Socialism, 1970-75
The Socialist Revolution After 1975
From Scientific Socialism to "IMF-ism," 1981-90
NATURAL RESOURCES
Land
Energy
SOMALI ECONOMY IN THE 1980s

Government
GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE
Constitution
Legislature
Local Government
Legal System
Courts
POLITICS
Opposition Movements
Politics of Reconciliation
Politics of Succession
Politics of Disintegration
MASS MEDIA
FOREIGN RELATIONS
Relations with Other African States
Relations with Arab Countries
Relations with the United States

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