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Author Monroe, J. Cameron, author.

Title The pre-colonial state in West Africa : building power in Dahomey / J. Cameron Monroe, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Publication Info. New York NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Geography, settlement, and politics on the Slave Coast -- Dahomey and the Atlantic world : the royal palace sphere -- Capturing the countryside -- City as history -- Power by design -- Building Dahomey.
Summary This volume incorporates historical, ethnographic, art historical, and archaeological sources to examine the relationship between the production of space and political order in the West African Kingdom of Dahomey during the tumultuous Atlantic Era. Dahomey, situated in the modern Republic of Bénin, emerged in this period as one of the principal agents in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and an exemplar of West African state formation. Drawing from eight years of ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Bénin, the central thesis of this volume is that Dahomean kings used spatial tactics to project power and mitigate dissent across their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that these tactics enabled kings to economically exploit their subjects and to promote a sense of the historical and natural inevitability of royal power.
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Subject Benin -- History -- To 1894.
Benin.
History.
Chronological Term To 1894
Subject Political culture -- Benin -- History.
Political culture.
Power (Social sciences) -- Benin -- History.
Power (Social sciences)
Architecture -- Political aspects -- Benin.
Architecture -- Political aspects.
Architecture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Monroe, J. Cameron. Pre-colonial state in West Africa 9781107040182 (DLC) 2014001783 (OCoLC)871228476
ISBN 9781139957861 (electronic book)
1139957864 (electronic book)
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9781107040182
1107040183