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Wives of the leopard: gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey
Bay, Edna G.
Year: c1998.
Publisher:  University of Virginia Press. 
© University Press of Virginia
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Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
Preface
Author's Note
Chapter 1 Along the Slave Coast
Chapter 2 From Dahomey's Origins to 1740
Chapter 3 The Age of Tegbesu and Hwanjile
Chapter 4 The Struggle to Maintain the State
Chapter 5 The Implications of Cultural and Commercial Change
Chapter 6 The Decline of Dahomey
Chapter 7 War, Disintegration, and the Failure of the Ancestors
Chapter 8 Reprise
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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Title: Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey Edna G. Bay.
Author: Bay, Edna G
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E-Distribution Information: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office
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Source Version: Wives of the leopard : gender, politics, and culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey Edna G. Bay. 
Bay, Edna G
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, c1998.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02559
Subject Headings: • Political culture -- Benin -- History
• Women in politics -- Benin -- History
• Benin -- Politics and government -- To 1960
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