Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey / Edna G. Bay.

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Main Author: Bay, Edna G. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [1998]
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505 0 0 |t List of Illustrations --  |t Preface --  |t Author's Note --  |g Ch. 1.  |t Along the Slave Coast --  |t Power, the Monarchy, and the Palace --  |t Learning about Dahomey --  |g Ch. 2.  |t From Dahomey's Origins to 1740 --  |t The Slave Trade and the Founding of the Kingdom --  |t The Authority of Princesses --  |t The Conquest of Allada and Whydah --  |t Customs, Court, and the Palace in the Early 1700s --  |t Adonon and the Creation of the Office of Kpojito --  |g Ch. 3.  |t The Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile --  |t Succession --  |t The Kpojito Hwanjile --  |t Ministers, Traders, and the Monarchy --  |t The Impact of Oyo --  |g Ch. 4.  |t The Struggle to Maintain the State --  |t The Reigns of Kpengla, Agonglo, and Adandozan --  |t The Military in the Late Eighteenth Century --  |t The Palace in the Late Eighteenth Century --  |t Successions and Political Instability --  |g Ch. 5.  |t The Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change --  |t Gezo's Coup d'Etat --  |t The Kpojito Agontime --  |t Innovations of the Age of Gezo --  |g Ch. 6.  |t The Decline of Dahomey --  |t The New Militarism --  |t Surveillance and the Palace --  |t Religion and Royal Control --  |t Succession in the Time of Glele and Behanzin --  |g Ch. 7.  |t War, Disintegration, and the Failure of the Ancestors --  |t The Rise of Behanzin --  |t European Imperialism --  |t The War with the French --  |t Agoliagbo and the Aftermath of the French Conquest --  |g Ch. 8.  |t Reprise --  |t Notes --  |t Glossary --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index. 
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