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Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Osborn, Emily Lynn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2011.
Colección:New African histories series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : households, gender, and politics in West African history
  • Origins : the founding of Baté, 1650-1750
  • Growth : warfare and exile, commerce and expansion, 1750-1850
  • Conflict : warfare and captivity, 1850-81
  • Occupation : Samori Touré and Baté, 1881/-91
  • Conquest : warfare, marriage, and French statecraft
  • Colonization : households and the French occupation
  • Separate spheres? : colonialism in practice
  • Conclusion : making states in the Milo River Valley, 1650/1910.