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

By: Nast, Heidi JContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005Description: xxx, 245 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Women -- Nigeria -- Kano -- Social conditions | Concubinage -- Nigeria -- Kano | Human geography -- Nigeria | Kano (Nigeria) -- Politics and government | Kano (Nigeria) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.42/09669/78 LOC classification: HQ696.7 | .N37 2005Online resources: Click to View
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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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