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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
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series New African histories series
New African histories series.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Samory, approximately 1830-1900.
SUBJECT Samory, approximately 1830-1900 fast
Subject Mandingo (African people) -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- History
Households -- Political aspects -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region)
Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions -- History
Women -- Guinea -- Kankan (Region) -- Social conditions
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
French colonies
Colonization -- Social aspects
Colonies -- Administration
Mandingo (African people)
Politics and government
Women -- Social conditions
Einflussnahme
Entfremdung
Frau
Kolonisation
Mandingvölker
Politik
SUBJECT Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- History
Kankan (Guinea : Region) -- Politics and government
Guinea -- Colonization -- Social aspects
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration
Subject Africa
Guinea
Guinea -- Kankan (Region)
Kankan
Mandingvölker.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0821443976
9780821443972