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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... example , the Bini conquered Lagos and established a Bini dynasty there in ( prob- ably ) the sixteenth century without disturbing Awori landownership . Another example is the Oyo conquest of the Egba whose rulers were apparently ...
... example , the Bini conquered Lagos and established a Bini dynasty there in ( prob- ably ) the sixteenth century without disturbing Awori landownership . Another example is the Oyo conquest of the Egba whose rulers were apparently ...
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... example by Samuel Brun in the early seventeenth century . Writing of the men of Asebu ( on the Gold Coast ) , Brun observed that ' Their machetes they use wrongly : what for us is the back is for them the blade ' . 16 Apart from swords ...
... example by Samuel Brun in the early seventeenth century . Writing of the men of Asebu ( on the Gold Coast ) , Brun observed that ' Their machetes they use wrongly : what for us is the back is for them the blade ' . 16 Apart from swords ...
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... example , in the savannah at the dry season when the grass was short . Bows may indeed still be seen in use by the hunter in the bush.26 In warfare bows and other missiles were mainly infantry weapons , as in Europe and the Middle East ...
... example , in the savannah at the dry season when the grass was short . Bows may indeed still be seen in use by the hunter in the bush.26 In warfare bows and other missiles were mainly infantry weapons , as in Europe and the Middle East ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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