Concubines and power
Subtitle: five hundred years in a Northern Nigerian palace
By: Heidi J. Nast.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Women -- Nigeria -- Kano -- Social conditions; Concubinage -- Nigeria -- Kano; Human geography -- Nigeria; Kano (Nigeria) -- Politics and government; Kano (Nigeria) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Grain treasuries and children : royal concubines in the 1500s and 1600s; title: Fecundity, indigo-dyeing, and the gendering of eunuchs; title: Great transformations : expropriation and fulani rule, 1806-1855; title: Concubine losses and male gains, 1846-55; title: British colonial abolition of slavery and concubinage, 1903-1960.