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Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
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- Creator
- Edna G. Bay
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0813917921, 0813917913, 9780813917924, 9780813917917
- OCLC
- ocn317460615, ocm37928567
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-366) and index.
- Ch. 1. Along the Slave Coast. Power, the Monarchy, and the Palace. Learning about Dahomey -- Ch. 2. From Dahomey's Origins to 1740. The Slave Trade and the Founding of the Kingdom. The Authority of Princesses. The Conquest of Allada and Whydah. Customs, Court, and the Palace in the Early 1700s. Adonon and the Creation of the Office of Kpojito -- Ch. 3. The Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile. Succession. The Kpojito Hwanjile. Ministers, Traders, and the Monarchy. The Impact of Oyo -- Ch. 4. The Struggle to Maintain the State. The Reigns of Kpengla, Agonglo, and Adandozan. The Military in the Late Eighteenth Century. The Palace in the Late Eighteenth Century. Successions and Political Instability -- Ch. 5. The Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change. Gezo's Coup d'Etat. The Kpojito Agontime. Innovations of the Age of Gezo -- Ch. 6. The Decline of Dahomey. The New Militarism. Surveillance and the Palace. Religion and Royal Control. Succession in the Time of Glele and Behanzin -- Ch. 7. War, Disintegration, and the Failure of the Ancestors. The Rise of Behanzin. European Imperialism. The War with the French. Agoliagbo and the Aftermath of the French Conquest -- Ch. 8. Reprise