The Precolonial State in West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Precolonial State in West Africa write by J. Cameron Monroe. This book was released on 2014-06-09. The Precolonial State in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.
The Precolonial State in West Africa
The Precolonial State in West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Precolonial State in West Africa write by J. Cameron Monroe. This book was released on 2014-06-04. The Precolonial State in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of B(r)nin.
The Precolonial State in West Africa
The Precolonial State in West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Precolonial State in West Africa write by J. Cameron Monroe. This book was released on 2014-01-01. The Precolonial State in West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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."
Our New Husbands Are Here
Our New Husbands Are Here - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our New Husbands Are Here write by Emily Lynn Osborn. This book was released on 2011-10-10. Our New Husbands Are Here available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Themes in West Africa’s History
Themes in West Africa’s History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Themes in West Africa’s History write by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. This book was released on 2006-01-15. Themes in West Africa’s History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.
