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By J. Cameron Monroe

ISBN-10: 1107040183

ISBN-13: 9781107040182

This quantity contains ancient, ethnographic, artwork ancient, and archaeological assets to check the connection among the construction of house and political order within the West African country of Dahomey in the course of the tumultuous Atlantic period. Dahomey, located within the smooth Republic of Bénin, emerged during this interval as one of many vital brokers within the trans-Atlantic slave exchange and an exemplar of West African kingdom formation. Drawing from 8 years of ethnohistorical and archaeological fieldwork within the Republic of Bénin, the valuable thesis of this quantity is that Dahomean kings used spatial strategies to venture strength and mitigate dissent throughout their territories. J. Cameron Monroe argues that those strategies enabled kings to economically make the most their topics and to advertise a feeling of the old and usual inevitability of royal power.

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