Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Autor Robert S. Smithen Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 sep 1989
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780299123345
ISBN-10: 0299123340
Pagini: 186
Ilustrații: 23 illus., 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN-10: 0299123340
Pagini: 186
Ilustrații: 23 illus., 1 map
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:2
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press
Notă biografică
Robert S. Smith was senior lecturer and professor of history at Lagos, Ife and Ibadan universities, in Nigeria.
Descriere
This new edition of the well-known innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period covers a period of some four or five hundred years, up to the last decades of the nineteenth century. Smith takes account of outside influences but focuses primarily on what happened between African states before the partition of the area and the establishment of colonies.
Cuprins
1.Peace and War 2. Peacetime Relations 3. West African Wars: Their Causes and Consequences 4. Armies 5. Arms and Armour 6. Static Warfare and Fortifications 7. Strategy, Tactics and the Battle 8. A Summing-Up.
Recenzii
Reviews of the original edition of Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa:
‘The work itself is meritorious. Its bibliography is excellent, its scholarship erudite…’ David Muffett, The American Historical Review, Volume 83, Issue 2.
‘In this book… [Robert S. Smith] has succeeded in producing the first integrated study of traditional West African War and Diplomacy…Breadth and balance are the most salient features of this volume.’ Joseph P. Smaldone, The Journal of African History 18(4).
‘The work itself is meritorious. Its bibliography is excellent, its scholarship erudite…’ David Muffett, The American Historical Review, Volume 83, Issue 2.
‘In this book… [Robert S. Smith] has succeeded in producing the first integrated study of traditional West African War and Diplomacy…Breadth and balance are the most salient features of this volume.’ Joseph P. Smaldone, The Journal of African History 18(4).