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Title Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives / edited by J. Cameron Monroe, Akinwumi Ogundiran.

Publication Info. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 390 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a broad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature and structures of African political and social relations changed across regions in this period. This is only the second volume in a decade to focus on the archeology of this period in West Africa, and the first volume in sub-Saharan Africanist archeology to be focused in the recent past in one sub-region of the continent from a coherent methodological and theoretical standpoint"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia : French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era : an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? / François Richard -- The Eguafo polity : between the traders and raiders / Sam Spiers -- From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel : an archaeology of the Huedan countryside / Neil L. Norman -- Segou, slavery, and sifinso / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara -- Building the state in Dahomey : power and landscape on the Bight of Benin / J. Cameron Monroe -- The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic age / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- The rise of the Bassar chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier / Philip de Barros -- Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau : northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds / Christopher R. DeCorse -- Rethinking the Mandara political landscape : cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium AD / Scott MacEachern -- The local and the global : historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic age / Ray A. Kea.
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Subject Africa, West -- History -- To 1864.
West Africa.
History.
Chronological Term To 1864
Subject Social structure -- Africa, West -- History.
Social structure.
Political culture -- Africa, West -- History.
Political culture.
Africa, West -- Commerce -- Social aspects -- History.
Commerce.
Social aspects.
Africa, West -- Commerce -- Political aspects -- History.
Landscape archaeology -- Africa, West.
Landscape archaeology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Monroe, J. Cameron.
Ogundiran, Akinwumi.
Other Form: Print version: Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012 9781107009394 (DLC) 2011019257 (OCoLC)726620684
ISBN 9781139224345 (electronic book)
1139224344 (electronic book)
9781139222631
1139222635
9781107009394
1107009391
40020637429
9781139217835
1139217836
Standard No. 9786613718976
40020637429