Warfare & Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West AfricaUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1989 - 164 pages This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century.& Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies. |
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... Chapters 7 , 25 , and Diamond ( 1965 ) , passim . 15. See Horton in Ajayi and Crowder , I , Chapter 3 , for a convenient summary of what constitutes a ' stateless ' society and of the role of ' secret ' societies . 16. See pp . 35-6 ...
... Chapters 7 , 25 , and Diamond ( 1965 ) , passim . 15. See Horton in Ajayi and Crowder , I , Chapter 3 , for a convenient summary of what constitutes a ' stateless ' society and of the role of ' secret ' societies . 16. See pp . 35-6 ...
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... chapter , guns had an important role in lagoon warfare , and ( as already noted in Chapter 5 ) played a prominent part in the defence of Lagos against the British naval assault in 1851. At Ijaye during the siege of 1860-2 , a number of ...
... chapter , guns had an important role in lagoon warfare , and ( as already noted in Chapter 5 ) played a prominent part in the defence of Lagos against the British naval assault in 1851. At Ijaye during the siege of 1860-2 , a number of ...
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... Chapter 3 ; for the walls of Old Oyo , see Willett ( 1960 , a ) ; Ife , Willett ( 1960 , b ) and Ozanne ( 1969 ) ; Owo , Mabogunje and Omer - Cooper , 37-40 . For the Benin walls , see Connah ( 1967 ) and his map ( n.d. ) , also ...
... Chapter 3 ; for the walls of Old Oyo , see Willett ( 1960 , a ) ; Ife , Willett ( 1960 , b ) and Ozanne ( 1969 ) ; Owo , Mabogunje and Omer - Cooper , 37-40 . For the Benin walls , see Connah ( 1967 ) and his map ( n.d. ) , also ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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