Travels in Western Africa in 1845 and 1846, Comprising a Journey from Whydah, Through the Kingdom of Dahomey to Adofoodia in the Interior
Author: John Duncan
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 336
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Author: John Duncan
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 336
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 344
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary Raum
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-11-29
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 1040164994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume explores how art and artifacts can tell women’s stories of war—a critical way into these stories, often hidden due to the second-tier status of reporting women’s accomplishments. This unique lens reveals personal, cultural, and historically noteworthy experiences often not found in records, manuscripts, and texts. Nine stories from history are examined, from the mythical Amazons of Ancient Greece to a female prisoner of war during World War II. Each of the social, political, and battlefield experiences of Penthesilea, Artemisia, Boudica, the feminine cavaliers, the Dahomey Amazons, suffragists, World War I medical corps, and a World War II prisoner of war are intertwined with a particular work of art or an artifact. These include pottery, iconographic images, public sculpture, stone engraving, clothing, decorative arts, paintings, and pulp art. While each story stands alone, brought together in this volume they represent a cross-sectional reflection on the record of women and war. The chapters cover not only a diverse range of women from around the globe - the African continent, the Hispanic territory of Europe, Carian and Ancient Greece and Rome, Iran, Great Britain-Scotland-ancient Caledonia, Western Europe, and North America—but also a diverse choice of artwork and artifacts, eras, and the nature of the wars being fought. This book will be of value to those interested in gender across history and its interplay in the field of war.
Author: Silke Strickrodt
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1847011101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA uniquely detailed account of the dynamics of Afro-European trade in two states on the western Slave Coast over three centuries and the transition from slave trade to legitimate commerce.
Author: Manchester Geographical Society
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 448
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 1034
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 476
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 570
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lynne Ellsworth Larsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-06-23
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1000899683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDahomey’s Royal Architecture examines the West African kingdom of Dahomey, located in present-day Republic of Benin. The book explores the Royal Palace of Dahomey’s relationship to the religious, cultural, and national identity of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (c. 1625–1892), colonial Dahomey (1892–1960) and post-colonial Benin (1960–present). The Royal Palace of Dahomey covers more than 108 acres and was surrounded by a wall over two miles long. When the French colonial army arrived in Abomey in 1892, the ruling king set fire to the palace to keep it from falling into enemy hands. Though much of the palace structure was subsequently left to ruin, a portion of it was restored from which the French ruled for a short period. In 1945, the colonial administration transformed part of the palace into a museum, and in 1985 the entire palace was added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list. This book documents the palace’s physical transformations in relation to its changing purposes and explores how the space maintained religious significance despite change. The palace’s construction, destruction, and restorations demonstrate how architecture can be manipulated and transformed according to the agendas of governments or according to the religious and cultural needs of a populace. The palace functions as a historic record by discussing aspects of documentation, revision, language, and interpretation. Covering almost four centuries of Dahomey’s history, this book will be of interest to researchers and students of African art and architecture, religious studies, west African history, and post-colonial studies.
Author: J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-02-13
Total Pages: 411
ISBN-13: 1107378451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramatically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa. The essays examine how social and political transformations occurred at the regional level by exploring regional economic networks, population shifts, cultural values and ideologies. The book demonstrates the importance of anthropological insights not only to the broad political history of West Africa, but also to an understanding of political culture as a form of meaningful social practice.