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Our new husbands are here

Osborn, Emily Lynn.

Our new husbands are here households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / [electronic resource] : Emily Lynn Osborn. - Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (p. cm.) - New African histories series . - New African histories series. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Samory, ca. 1830-1900.


Women--Social conditions--History.--Guinea--Kankan (Region)
Households--Political aspects--Guinea--Kankan (Region)
Mandingo (African people)--History.--Guinea--Kankan (Region)


France--Colonies--Administration.--Africa
Guinea--Colonization--Social aspects.
Kankan (Guinea : Region)--Politics and government.
Kankan (Guinea : Region)--History.


Electronic books.

DT543.9.K35 / O73 2011

966.52