Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Contents
Grain treasuries and children : royal concubines in the 1500s and 1600s -- Fecundity, indigo-dyeing, and the gendering of eunuchs -- Great transformations : expropriation and fulani rule, 1806-1855 -- Concubine losses and male gains, 1846-55 -- British colonial abolition of slavery and concubinage, 1903-1960.