Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa

Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa

Archaeological Perspectives

Monroe, J. Cameron; Ogundiran, Akinwumi

Cambridge University Press

12/2020

410

Mole

Inglês

9781108978309

15 a 20 dias

550

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Forward Merrick Posnansky; 1. Introduction: the politics of landscape in Atlantic West Africa J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran; Part I. Fragmented Landscapes: 2. Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia: French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) Ibrahima Thiaw; 3. Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era: an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? Francois Richard; 4. The Eguafo polity: between the traders and raiders Sam Spiers; 5. From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel: an archaeology of the Huedan countryside Neil L. Norman; Part II. State-Generated Landscapes: 6. Segou, slavery, and sifinso Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara; 7. Building the state in Dahomey: power and landscape on the Bight of Benin J. Cameron Monroe; 8. The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic Age Akinwumi Ogundiran; Part III. Internal Frontier Landscapes: 9. The rise of the Bassar Chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier Philip de Barros; 10. Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau: northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds Christopher R. DeCorse; 11. Rethinking the Mandara political landscape: cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium AD Scott MacEachern; Part IV. Conclusion: 12. The local and the global: historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic Age Ray A. Kea.
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