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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... weapons . Turney - High writes , with some exaggeration , that ' weapons are merely tools used to facilitate ' the practice of war.1 Yet these ' mere tools ' are of first importance in forwarding success in war , for the result of a ...
... weapons . Turney - High writes , with some exaggeration , that ' weapons are merely tools used to facilitate ' the practice of war.1 Yet these ' mere tools ' are of first importance in forwarding success in war , for the result of a ...
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... weapons . The majority of the weapons were locally made . West Africa had an abundance of woods which were hard , pliant and workable , and of craftsmen skilled in carving and carpentry . Bowyers , shield - makers and similar artificers ...
... weapons . The majority of the weapons were locally made . West Africa had an abundance of woods which were hard , pliant and workable , and of craftsmen skilled in carving and carpentry . Bowyers , shield - makers and similar artificers ...
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... weapons Probably the oldest , and certainly the simplest , weapon is the club . By the European Middle Ages this had ... weapons with no point , and being striking weapons were usually wider and heavier at the distal end . In West Africa ...
... weapons Probably the oldest , and certainly the simplest , weapon is the club . By the European Middle Ages this had ... weapons with no point , and being striking weapons were usually wider and heavier at the distal end . In West Africa ...
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their Causes Consequences | 28 |
Armies Canoe Fleets | 42 |
Arms Armour | 64 |
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