This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.

Looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. The book examines how pol

This study brings Africa into the mainstream of studies of state-formation in agrarian societies. Territorial integration is the challenge: institutional linkag

The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on The Early State in Africa, conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at

The evolution of the state from earlier forms of political organization is associated with revolutionary changes in the structure of inequality. These magnify d