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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]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps.
text file
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.
Summary In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state. By analyzing the history of statecraft in the interior savannas of West Africa (in present-day Guinea-Conakry), Osborn shows that the household, and women within it, played a critical role in the pacifist Islamic state of Kankan-Baté, enabling it to.
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Subject Samory, approximately 1830-1900.
Samory, approximately 1830-1900.
Samory, approximately 1830-1900.
Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- History.
Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- Politics and government.
Mandingo (African people) -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- History.
Mandingo (African people)
Guinea -- Kankan (Region)
History.
Households -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region)
Households.
Guinea.
Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions -- History.
Women.
Social conditions.
Guinea -- Colonization -- Social aspects.
Colonization.
Social aspects.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration.
France.
Colonies.
Africa.
Administration.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: 9780821419830 0821419838 (DLC) 2011022478
ISBN 0821443976 (electronic book)
9780821443972 (electronic book)
9780821419830 (pb ; alkaline paper)
0821419838 (pb ; alkaline paper)