The Precolonial State in West Africa : Building Power in Dahomey
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1107040183
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9781107040182
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Jun 9th, 2014
Print length
279 Pages
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790 grams
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18.70 x 26.20 x 2.30 cms
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The Atlantic Era, from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, was a period of dramatic political change in West Africa. This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin, a polity that emerged as a principal partner in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Benin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an exemplar of West African state formation. Drawing from eight years of ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Benin, the central thesis of this volume is that Dahomean kings used spatial tactics to project power and mitigate dissent across their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that these tactics enabled kings to economically exploit their subjects and to promote a sense of the historical and natural inevitability of royal power.
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