Our new husbands are here [electronic resource] : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / Emily Lynn Osborn.
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TextSeries: New African histories series | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (p. cm.)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780821443972
- France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration
- Guinea -- Colonization -- Social aspects
- Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- Politics and government
- Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- History
- Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions -- History
- Households -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region)
- Mandingo (African people) -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- History
- Samory, ca. 1830-1900
- 966.52 23
- DT543.9.K35 O73 2011
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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