Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / Emily Lynn Osborn.

Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Osborn, Emily Lynn
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2011.
Series:New African histories series.
Subjects:
Samory, > approximately 1830-1900.
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.
Kankan (Guinea : Region) > History.
Kankan (Guinea : Region) > Politics and government.
Guinea > Colonization > Social aspects.
France > Colonies > Africa > Administration.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of 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.

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