Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : households, gender, and politics in West African history
  • Origins : the founding of Bate, 1650/1750
  • Growth : warfare and exile, commerce and expansion, 1750/1850
  • Conflict : warfare and captivity, 1850/81
  • Occupation : Samori Toure and Bate, 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.