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Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 12,52 MB
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781139959988
This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of B(r)nin.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107040183
This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2014-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781306857659
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 : Emily Lynn Osborn
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0821443976
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 : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 47,88 MB
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0821445669
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.
Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1400888166
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history more generally. Scholars have long held that such distinctions arose during the colonial period, but Gomez shows they developed much earlier. Focusing on the Savannah and Sahel region, Gomez traces the exchange of ideas and influences with North Africa and the Central Islamic Lands by way of merchants, scholars, and pilgrims. Islam’s growth in West Africa, in tandem with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire. A major preoccupation was the question of who could be legally enslaved, which together with other factors led to the construction of new ideas about ethnicity, race, gender, and caste—long before colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. Telling a radically new story about early Africa in global history, African Dominion is set to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come.
Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299123345
This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies.
Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 21,31 MB
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107020689
By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.
Author : Basil Davidson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1317882644
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 : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,3 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9780416550702