TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bay,Edna G.
TI  - Wives of the leopard: gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey 
SN  - 0813917913
AV  - JQ3376.A91 B39 1998
U1  - 320.082096683 21
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Benin
KW  - History
KW  - Women
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - To 1960
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-366) and index; List of Illustrations --; Preface --; Author's Note --; 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 --; Notes --; Glossary --; Bibliography --; Index
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