Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial West Africa
Author - Robert Sydney Smith
Year published - 1989
Published by - Currey
Book Format - Soft Cover
Genre - British Colonial Wars
Summary
Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies whose levels of political organisation warrant the term 'states'. The arrangements for the exercise of power within these varied from states where one man or an oligarchy made decisions about war and peace to states where power was diffused between members of the community. North America: University of Wisconsin Press
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Author - Robert Sydney Smith
Year published - 1989
Published by - Currey
Book Format - Soft Cover
Genre - British Colonial Wars
Summary
Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies whose levels of political organisation warrant the term 'states'. The arrangements for the exercise of power within these varied from states where one man or an oligarchy made decisions about war and peace to states where power was diffused between members of the community. North America: University of Wisconsin Press
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Author - Robert Sydney Smith
Year published - 1989
Published by - Currey
Book Format - Soft Cover
Genre - British Colonial Wars
Summary
Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies whose levels of political organisation warrant the term 'states'. The arrangements for the exercise of power within these varied from states where one man or an oligarchy made decisions about war and peace to states where power was diffused between members of the community. North America: University of Wisconsin Press
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