Title: Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa : archaeological perspectives /
Authors: Monroe, J. Cameron.; Ogundiran, Akinwumi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Social structure Africa, West History.; Political culture Africa, West History.; Landscape archaeology Africa, West.; Africa, West History; Africa, West Commerce Social aspects.; Africa, West Commerce History.; Africa, West Commerce Political aspects.; Africa, West History; Africa, West Commerce Social aspects History.; Africa, West Commerce Political aspects History.
Abstract: "This volume examines the archaeology of precolonial West African societies in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. Using historical and archaeological perspectives on landscape, this collection of essays sheds light on how involvement in the commercial revolutions of the early modern period dramitically reshaped the regional contours of political organization across West Africa."-- P. [4] of cover.
Contents: Power and landscape in Atlantic West Africa / J. Cameron Monroe and Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Atlantic impacts on inland Senegambia : French penetration and African initiatives in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gajaaga and Bundu (Upper Senegal River) / Ibrahima Thiaw -- Political transformations and cultural landscapes in Senegambia during the Atlantic era : an alternative view from the Siin (Senegal)? / François Richard -- The Eguafo polity : between the traders and raiders / Sam Spiers -- From the shadow of an Atlantic citadel : an archaeology of the Huedan countryside / Neil L. Norman -- Segou, slavery, and sifinso / Kevin C. MacDonald and Seydou Camara -- Building the state in Dahomey : power and landscape on the Bight of Benin / J. Cameron Monroe -- The formation of an Oyo imperial colonial during the Atlantic age / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- The rise of the Bassar chiefdom in the context of Africa's internal frontier / Philip de Barros -- Fortified towns of the Koinadugu Plateau : northern Sierra Leone in the pre-Atlantic and Atlantic worlds / Christopher R. DeCorse -- Rethinking the Mandara political landscape : cultural developments, climate, and an entry into history in the second millennium A.D. / Scott MacEachern -- The local and the global : historiographical reflections on West Africa and the Atlantic age / Ray A. Kea.