The Precolonial State In West Africa

Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040183
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precolonial State in West Africa written by J. Cameron Monroe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-09 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.

Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139959988
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precolonial State in West Africa written by J. Cameron Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of B(r)nin.

Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781306857659
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Precolonial State in West Africa written by J. Cameron Monroe and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Benin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an exemplar of West African state formation. Drawing from eight years of ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Benin, the central thesis of this volume is that Dahomean kings used spatial tactics to project power and mitigate dissent across their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that these tactics enabled kings to economically exploit their subjects and to promote a sense of the historical and natural inevitability of royal power."

Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882652
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Africa before the Colonial Era written by Basil Davidson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.

Author : Martha Wilfahrt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009286188
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics written by Martha Wilfahrt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Gomez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691196826
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Dominion written by Michael Gomez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a radically new account of the importance of early Africa in global history, Gomez traces how Islam's growth in West Africa, along with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire.

Author : Emily Lynn Osborn
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443976
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our New Husbands Are Here written by Emily Lynn Osborn and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté, enabling it to endure the predations of the transatlantic slave trade and become a major trading center in the nineteenth century. But French colonization introduced a radical new method of statecraft to the region, one that separated the household from the state and depoliticized women’s domestic roles. This book will be of interest to scholars of politics, gender, the household, slavery, and Islam in African history.

Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020689
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa written by Paul Nugent and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-06 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.

Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780416550702
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa written by Robert Sydney Smith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1976-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004380183
Total Pages : 537 pages
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Download or read book Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.