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Author Nast, Heidi J.

Title Concubines and power : five hundred years in a Northern Nigerian palace / Heidi J. Nast ; foreword by Hausatu Abba Ado Bayero.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, [2005]
©2005

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 Moore Stacks  HQ696.7 .N37 2005    Available  ---
Description xxx, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography 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.
Subject Women -- Nigeria -- Kano -- Social conditions.
Women.
Nigeria -- Kano.
Social conditions.
Concubinage -- Nigeria -- Kano.
Concubinage.
Human geography -- Nigeria.
Human geography.
Nigeria.
Kano (Nigeria) -- Politics and government.
Kano (Nigeria) -- History.
Women.
Womyn.
ISBN 0816641544 paperback alkaline paper
0816641536 hardcover alkaline paper