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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... eighteenth century was the occasion when the senior prince at Allada took the quarrelling French and Dutch representatives each by one hand and conducted them simulta- neously to their audience with his father the king - though Labat ...
... eighteenth century was the occasion when the senior prince at Allada took the quarrelling French and Dutch representatives each by one hand and conducted them simulta- neously to their audience with his father the king - though Labat ...
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... eighteenth century , and is far from having disappeared as a motive . It accounts at least in part for most of the wars which will be noticed in this book : for the strife which led to the displacement in turn of each of the great ...
... eighteenth century , and is far from having disappeared as a motive . It accounts at least in part for most of the wars which will be noticed in this book : for the strife which led to the displacement in turn of each of the great ...
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... century . By the eighteenth century guns were becoming known in Hausaland , Nupe , Darfur , and Wadai , 32 and though in no part of this region was their use on a significant scale before the mid - nineteenth century ( for reasons which ...
... century . By the eighteenth century guns were becoming known in Hausaland , Nupe , Darfur , and Wadai , 32 and though in no part of this region was their use on a significant scale before the mid - nineteenth century ( for reasons which ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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