Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey /
Edna G. Bay.
- xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-366) and index.
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Along the Slave Coast -- Power, the Monarchy, and the Palace -- Learning about Dahomey -- 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 -- The Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile -- Succession -- The Kpojito Hwanjile -- Ministers, Traders, and the Monarchy -- The Impact of Oyo -- 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 -- The Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change -- Gezo's Coup d'Etat -- The Kpojito Agontime -- Innovations of the Age of Gezo -- The Decline of Dahomey -- The New Militarism -- Surveillance and the Palace -- Religion and Royal Control -- Succession in the Time of Glele and Behanzin -- 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 -- Reprise -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8.
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