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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 / Emily Lynn Osborn

Catalog Data

Author:
Osborn, Emily Lynn  Search this
Subject:
Samory approximately 1830-1900  Search this
Physical description:
xiii, 273 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Type:
Books
Place:
Guinea
Kankan (Region)
Kankan (Guinea : Region)
France
Africa
Date:
2011
Contents:
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
Topic:
Mandingo (African people)--History  Search this
Households--Political aspects  Search this
Women--Social conditions  Search this
History  Search this
Politics and government  Search this
Colonization  Search this
Social aspects  Search this
Colonies  Search this
Administration  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_987355