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Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107040182
This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1139959980
This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of B(r)nin.
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1306857651
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
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882657
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
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009286183
Author : Michael A. Gomez,Michael Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 052152847X
Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing upon a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu's history. He analyses the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state's response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century.
Author : Paul Nugent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107020689
By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts.
Author : Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821445662
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 : Alexander Keese
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004307353
Ethnicity and the Colonial State compares the choices of community leaders in three different West African groups (Wolof, Temne, and Ewe), with regard to “selling” their identifications to the colonial rulers. The book thereby addresses ethnicity as a factor in global history.
Author : Catherine Chambers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : IND:30000078189671
Charts the rise and fall of states across western Africa, from the 15th century to the early 20th century. Examines how states evolved and how they reacted to new alliances.
Author : Ebere Nwaubani
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1580460763
He also gives a nuanced appraisal of the Cold War, demonstrating that it was not as important as popularly believed in determining U.S. behavior in Africa. The primary focus of the book is on West Africa, with case studies focusing on the Ewe, Ghana (including the Volta dam project), and Guinea. The broad issues discussed are framed in the larger context of sub-Saharan Africa, and against the backdrop of the larger debates about the nature of post-1945 United States diplomacy."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Adewunmi Fajana,A. O. Anjorin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036079957
Author : Robert Sydney Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 0416550703
Author : J. D. Fage
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001669667
An outline history of West Africa from 900AD up until the end of the colonial period and the re-emergence of independent African states in the 1960s. Topics covered include political development, the European scramble for colonies, the Islamic revolution and the slave trade.
Author : Martha Wilfahrt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009286206
Why are some communities able to come together to improve their collective lot while others are not? Looking at variation in local government performance in decentralized West Africa, this book advances a novel answer: communities are better able to coordinate around basic service delivery when their formal jurisdictional boundaries overlap with informal social institutions, or norms. This book identifies the precolonial past as the driver of striking subnational variation in the present because these social institutions only encompass the many villages of the local state in areas that were once home to precolonial polities. The book develops and tests a theory of institutional congruence to document how the past shapes contemporary elite approaches to redistribution within the local state. Where precolonial kingdoms left behind collective identities and dense social networks, local elites find it easier to cooperate following decentralization. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.