Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives /
"This volume applies insights drawn from the theories and methods of landscape archaeology to contribute to our understanding of the nature if West African societies in the Atlantic Era (17th-19th Centuries AD). The authors adopt a broad set of methods and approaches to tackle how the nature an...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Mục lục:
- Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran
- Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia : French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) / Ibrahima Thiaw
- Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era : an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? / François Richard
- The Eguafo polity : between the traders and raiders / Sam Spiers
- From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel : an archaeology of the Huedan countryside / Neil L. Norman
- Segou, slavery, and sifinso / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara
- Building the state in Dahomey : power and landscape on the Bight of Benin / J. Cameron Monroe
- The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial enclave during the Atlantic age / Akinwumi Ogundiran
- The rise of the Bassar chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier / Philip de Barros
- Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau : northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds / Christopher R. DeCorse
- Rethinking the Mandara political landscape : cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium AD / Scott MacEachern
- The local and the global : historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic age / Ray A. Kea.