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Author Osborn, Emily Lynn.

Title Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / Emily Lynn Osborn.

Publication Info. Athens : Ohio University Press, [2011]
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  966.52 O81O    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series New African histories series.
New African histories series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Subject Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- History.
Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- Politics and government.
Mandingo (African people) -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- History.
Households -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region)
Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions -- History.
Guinea -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
Samory, approximately 1830-1900.
ISBN 9780821419830 pb alkaline paper
0821419838 pb alkaline paper
9780821443972 electronic
0821443976 electronic
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