A Popular History of Benin
A Popular History of Benin

Author: Peter M. Roese

Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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The history of the former Kingdom of Benin is a fascinating subject which aroused the interest of many scholars during more than one hundred years. However, today, when Africa unfortunately attracts much less public and professional interest than in the times of de-colonisation and subsequent cold war struggle for the continent between the socialist and capitalist blocs, only a few specialists outside Nigeria are undertaking Benin researches and, therefore, the authors felt the need to make a new attempt for writing a history of this remarkable kingdom, including newest results of researches. Besides the general public, the book is destined for graduate and undergraduate students, as well as lecturers on African studies. To make easier reading for the general public, the book contains some elements of what may be called popular history .

Primary History Kingdom of Benin
Primary History Kingdom of Benin

Author: Fidelia Nimmons

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-08-27

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781492258131

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Primary History Kingdom of Benin (Not to be confused with former Dahomey) has been written to support teachers to meet the requirements of the new National Curriculum Framework for history at Key Stage 2: a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history. It covers all historical aspects of the great kingdom which was at its height between the 14th and 16 centuries. This book is divided into three sections. The first section covers study of palace life; the second section covers growing up experiences of the kingdom's children and of ordinary people. The third section provides numerous and varied historical enquiries activities to improve pupils' knowledge and understanding of historical facts of the great kingdom and help to develop their enquiries skills. This section includes comparison of medieval British and Benin kings. This book incorporates historical sources including African oral traditions of storytelling, wood and terracotta sculptures and reading and analysis of the Benin bronze plaques through which the kings and elders of the kingdom chose to record their history. To keep up with technological advancement and opportunities, a dedicated website has been set up to provide further activities and up to date knowledge and information on the kingdom. A virtual classroom has also been created through which the author can clarify and provide additional support to teachers and pupils as necessary. Details of these websites are below. There are many more resources on the website including videos and photographs with cross curricular activities including ideas for developing writing and word work through drama and role play. This method of learning makes this unit an exciting topic for pupils to study. The kingdom, founded around 40Bc was at its height between the 14th and 16th century when it conquered neighbouring countries on the West African Coast and traded far afield with Europeans and traders from the East. It was sacked by the British in 1897 though the crown was restored in 1914, the king's authority and influence was highly diminished. However, the people's traditions and customs continue to this day. Fidelia Nimmons has a track record of achieving outstanding results with a variety of learners and has written many teaching and learning support books to this aim. Website: www.kingdomofbenin.weebly.com Virtual classroom: http: //kidblog.org/nimmonsvclass/ Twitter page: https: //twitter.com/PrincessIyomon Enquiries and contact: www.ifitmatter.weebly.com

The Benin Plaques
The Benin Plaques

Author: Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-15

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1351254596

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The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin kingdom at the moment of its greatest political power and geographic reach. By examining European accounts, Benin oral histories, and the physical evidence of the extant plaques, Gunsch is the first to propose an installation pattern for the series.

Benin Studies
Benin Studies

Author: R. E. Bradbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1351031244

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This collection of R. E. Bradbury's papers, originally published in 1973 includes edited sections of his (then hitherto) unpublished thesis on the Benin village in Western Nigeria. The book is arranged in 3 parts: historical and political studies of the kingdom of Benin; Benin village organization and religion and art. An introduction by Peter Morton-Williams traces bradbury's development as an interpreter of the culture, society and art of Benin, beginning with his first studies in the filed and culminating in the important anthropological and historical essays.

Loot
Loot

Author: Barnaby Phillips

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 527

ISBN-13: 1786079364

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A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?

Wives of the Leopard
Wives of the Leopard

Author: Edna G. Bay

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2012-06-29

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780813923864

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Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in the name of the king. The second was the palace, a household of several thousand wives of the king who supported and managed state functions. Looking at Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and the growth of European imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a distinctly Dahomean perspective as she weaves together evidence drawn from travelers' memoirs and local oral accounts, from the religious practices of vodun, and from ethnographic studies of the twentieth century. Wives of the Leopard thoroughly integrates gender into the political analysis of state systems, effectively creating a social history of power. More broadly, it argues that women as a whole and men of the lower classes were gradually squeezed out of access to power as economic resources contracted with the decline of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. In these and other ways, the book provides an accessible portrait of Dahomey's complex and fascinating culture without exoticizing it.

Popular History Now and Then
Popular History Now and Then

Author: Barbara Korte

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-03-31

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 3839420075

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The present boom in popular history is not unprecedented. The contributions to this volume investigate peaks of historical interest which favour popular approaches from around 1800 to the present. They analyse the media, genres and institutions through which historical knowledge has been disseminated - from artefacts to the archive, from poetry to photography, from music to murals, and from periodicals to popular TV series. They ask how major traditions in the popular imagery of the past have evolved and changed over time. Cultural contexts covered in the book include Western and Southern Europe, the United States and West Africa. Contributors come from a range of disciplines, including history, literary and cultural studies, musicology as well as social and cultural anthropology.