So, I'd like some kind of historical nonfiction book(s) about how people lived back in the day under threat of bandits or raids. Not a book about the bandits or raiders themselves, but about the societies/people they would be victimizing and the effects of that, if that makes sense? I want to learn about how it shaped/affected what people did, the precautions they took, etc.
by blu3heron
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Steel Bonnets by George MacDonald Fraser. The Intro mentions how presidents Nixon and Johnson were both descendants of fighting men on the bloody border between England and Scotland.
Go Down Together, Jesse James or The Last Gunfight
*Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies* ed. Sylviane A. Diouf discusses this in some of the essays.