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100	1		_aBay, Edna G., _eauthor. _91065198
245	1	0	_aWives of the leopard : _bgender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey / _cEdna G. Bay.
264		1	_aCharlottesville : _bUniversity of Virginia Press, _c[1998]
264		4	_c©1998
300			_axv, 376 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 355-366) and index.
505	0	0	_tList of Illustrations -- _tPreface -- _tAuthor's Note -- _gCh. 1. _tAlong the Slave Coast -- _tPower, the Monarchy, and the Palace -- _tLearning about Dahomey -- _gCh. 2. _tFrom Dahomey's Origins to 1740 -- _tThe Slave Trade and the Founding of the Kingdom -- _tThe Authority of Princesses -- _tThe Conquest of Allada and Whydah -- _tCustoms, Court, and the Palace in the Early 1700s -- _tAdonon and the Creation of the Office of Kpojito -- _gCh. 3. _tThe Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile -- _tSuccession -- _tThe Kpojito Hwanjile -- _tMinisters, Traders, and the Monarchy -- _tThe Impact of Oyo -- _gCh. 4. _tThe Struggle to Maintain the State -- _tThe Reigns of Kpengla, Agonglo, and Adandozan -- _tThe Military in the Late Eighteenth Century -- _tThe Palace in the Late Eighteenth Century -- _tSuccessions and Political Instability -- _gCh. 5. _tThe Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change -- _tGezo's Coup d'Etat -- _tThe Kpojito Agontime -- _tInnovations of the Age of Gezo -- _gCh. 6. _tThe Decline of Dahomey -- _tThe New Militarism -- _tSurveillance and the Palace -- _tReligion and Royal Control -- _tSuccession in the Time of Glele and Behanzin -- _gCh. 7. _tWar, Disintegration, and the Failure of the Ancestors -- _tThe Rise of Behanzin -- _tEuropean Imperialism -- _tThe War with the French -- _tAgoliagbo and the Aftermath of the French Conquest -- _gCh. 8. _tReprise -- _tNotes -- _tGlossary -- _tBibliography -- _tIndex.
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