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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其他作者: Monroe, J. Cameron (Editor), Ogundiran, Akinwumi (Editor)
格式: Licensed eBooks
語言:英语
出版: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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書本目錄:
  • 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.