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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Osborn, Emily Lynn.
- Series:
- New African histories series.
- New African histories series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mandingo (African people)--Guinea--Kankan (Region)--History.
- Mandingo (African people).
- Households--Political aspects--Guinea--Kankan (Region).
- Households.
- Women--Guinea--Kankan (Region)--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Kankan (Guinea : Region)--History.
- Kankan (Guinea : Region).
- Kankan (Guinea : Region)--Politics and government.
- Guinea--Colonization--Social aspects.
- Guinea.
- France--Colonies--Africa--Administration.
- France.
- Samory, approximately 1830-1900.
- Samory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté, enabling it to
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780821443972
- 0821443976
- OCLC:
- 760413471
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