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The Precolonial State in West Africa: Building Power in Dahomey

Name: The Precolonial State in West Africa: Building Power in Dahomey
ISBN: 9781107040182

J. Cameron Monroe

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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 Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principle 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 Bénin, 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.

カテゴリー:

History - African History

年:

2014

出版社:

Cambridge University Press

言語:

english

ページ:

279

ISBN 10:

1107040183