Concubines and power [electronic resource] : five hundred years in a Northern Nigerian palace / Heidi J. Nast ; foreword by Hausatu Abba Ado Bayero.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005.Description: xxx, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 305.42/09669/78 22
LOC classification:
  • HQ696.7 .N37 2005eb
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Contents:
Grain treasuries and children : royal concubines in the 1500s and 1600s -- Fecundity, indigo dyeing, and the gendering of eunuchs -- Great transformations : expropriation and fulani rule -- Concubine losses and male gains -- British colonial abolition of slavery and concubinage.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.

Grain treasuries and children : royal concubines in the 1500s and 1600s -- Fecundity, indigo dyeing, and the gendering of eunuchs -- Great transformations : expropriation and fulani rule -- Concubine losses and male gains -- British colonial abolition of slavery and concubinage.

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