The Women Soldiers Of Dahomey
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The Women Soldiers Of Dahomey
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Author : Masioni, Pat
language : en
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-02
The Women Soldiers Of Dahomey written by Masioni, Pat and has been published by UNESCO Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-02 with categories.
The Women Soldiers Of Dahomey
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Author : Sylvia Serbin
language : en
Publisher: United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization
Release Date : 2015
The Women Soldiers Of Dahomey written by Sylvia Serbin and has been published by United Nations Education, Scientific & Cultural Organization this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Benin categories.
Elite troops of women soldiers contributed to the military power of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Admired in their country and feared by their adversaries, these formidable warriors never fled from danger. The troops were dissolved after the fall of Behanzin (Gbehanzin), the last King of Dahomey, during French colonial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century.
Amazons Of Black Sparta 2nd Edition
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Author : Stanley B. Alpern
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2011-04-11
Amazons Of Black Sparta 2nd Edition written by Stanley B. Alpern and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-11 with History categories.
The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Updated with a new preface by the author, Amazons of Black Sparta is the product of meticulous archival research and Alpern's gift for narrative. It will stand as the most comprehensive and accessible account of the woman warriors of Dahomey.
Warrior Women
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Author : Robert Edgerton
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 2000-06-22
Warrior Women written by Robert Edgerton and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-22 with History categories.
When looking for historical examples of women who have fought as soldiers, one can refer--with disappointment--to the words of John Keegan, one of the world's most well-known military historians: "Women look to men to protect them from danger, and bitterly reproach them when they fail as defenders...Women do not fight."In this book, anthropologist and historian Robert Edgerton disagrees, taking as his centerpiece the women warriors of Dahomey, a West African kingdom that reached its heyday during the height of the African slave trade. In this land (now the Republic of Benin), women eventually became the elite force of the kingdom's standing army, the prime fighting force faced by the French when they defeated and colonized the region in the 1890s. This book is both a narrative history of these women and their role in Dahomian society as well as a more far-ranging refutation of the argument that warfare has always been a club "for men only."
The Women Warriors Of Dahomey
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Author : Andrew R. Maxwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
The Women Warriors Of Dahomey written by Andrew R. Maxwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Benin categories.
The kingdom of Dahomey was located in what is now the Republic of Benin, just west of Nigeria. The kingdom dates from the 17th century, but its rapid expansion began in the 18th century. The inland kingdom's powerful army captured Allada and Whydah (Ouidah) on the coast in the 1720s, giving them access to European traders on the coast. The kingdom of Dahomey sold various goods to Europeans, including human captives captured in its wars. In return they received firearms, and other European imports. Dahomey's army became well-armed with muskets. The backbone of its army were musket-armed infantry, as opposed to the rival Oyo Empire, which relied heavily on cavalry. The most famous and unique feature of the Dahomean army, however, were its female soldiers, the Dahomean Amazons. In the first Franco-Dahomean War (1890) Dahomey was unable to assert its control over the coastal kingdom of Porto Novo, which had become a French protectorate. As a result, France solidified its foothold on the coast. The second Franco-Dahomean War (1892-1894) ended in the French conquest of Dahomey, which then became a French colony. Dahomey was incorporated into the French West African territory of French Dahomey. In 1960 the Republic of Dahomey won its independence from France. In 1975 the Republic of Dahomey's name was changed to the People's Republic of Benin.
Forgotten Warriors
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Author : Sarah Percy
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-06-22
Forgotten Warriors written by Sarah Percy and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-22 with History categories.
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thirty years before they were allowed to fight in combat. From the Mino, the all-female army that protected Dahomey from the West for two hundred years to the Night Witches, Soviet flying aces that decimated the Nazis; from the real story of Joan of Arc to the cross-dressing soldiers whose disguises were so effective the men around them never realized who they were fighting with, Sarah Percy shines a fascinating new light on the history of warfare. And against a backdrop of sieges and desperate battles, rebellions and civil wars, a series of extraordinary women come alive on the page, determined not to be passive victims. Every country has their tomb to the unknown warrior, picking out one unnamed body to represent the sacrifices of thousands of others. As Forgotten Warriors shows, those overlooked soldiers could well be female. Their heroic and compelling stories need to be heard.
Wives Of The Leopard
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Author : Edna G. Bay
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2012-06-29
Wives Of The Leopard written by Edna G. Bay and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-29 with History categories.
Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in the name of the king. The second was the palace, a household of several thousand wives of the king who supported and managed state functions. Looking at Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and the growth of European imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a distinctly Dahomean perspective as she weaves together evidence drawn from travelers' memoirs and local oral accounts, from the religious practices of vodun, and from ethnographic studies of the twentieth century. Wives of the Leopard thoroughly integrates gender into the political analysis of state systems, effectively creating a social history of power. More broadly, it argues that women as a whole and men of the lower classes were gradually squeezed out of access to power as economic resources contracted with the decline of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. In these and other ways, the book provides an accessible portrait of Dahomey's complex and fascinating culture without exoticizing it.
The Precolonial State In West Africa
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Author : J. Cameron Monroe
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-09
The Precolonial State In West Africa written by J. Cameron Monroe and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-09 with History categories.
This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.
Women Warriors
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Author : Pamela D. Toler
language : en
Publisher: Beacon Press
Release Date : 2019-02-26
Women Warriors written by Pamela D. Toler and has been published by Beacon Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-26 with History categories.
Who says women don’t go to war? From Vikings and African queens to cross-dressing military doctors and WWII Russian fighter pilots, these are the stories of women for whom battle was not a metaphor. The woman warrior is always cast as an anomaly—Joan of Arc, not GI Jane. But women, it turns out, have always gone to war. In this fascinating and lively world history, Pamela Toler not only introduces us to women who took up arms, she also shows why they did it and what happened when they stepped out of their traditional female roles to take on other identities. These are the stories of women who fought because they wanted to, because they had to, or because they could. Among the warriors you’ll meet are: * Tomyris, ruler of the Massagetae, who killed Cyrus the Great of Persia when he sought to invade her lands * The West African ruler Amina of Hausa, who led her warriors in a campaign of territorial expansion for more than 30 years * Boudica, who led the Celtic tribes of Britain into a massive rebellion against the Roman Empire to avenge the rapes of her daughters * The Trung sisters, Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, who led an untrained army of 80,000 troops to drive the Chinese empire out of Vietnam * The Joshigun, a group of 30 combat-trained Japanese women who fought against the forces of the Meiji emperor in the late 19th century * Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhansi, who was regarded as the “bravest and best” military leader in the 1857 Indian Mutiny against British rule * Maria Bochkareva, who commanded Russia’s first all-female battalion—the First Women’s Battalion of Death—during WWII * Buffalo Calf Road Woman, the Cheyenne warrior who knocked General Custer off his horse at the Battle of Little Bighorn * Juana Azurduy de Padilla, a mestiza warrior who fought in at least 16 major battles against colonizers of Latin America and who is a national hero in Bolivia and Argentina today * And many more spanning from ancient times through the 20th century. By considering the ways in which their presence has been erased from history, Toler reveals that women have always fought—not in spite of being women but because they are women.
Wake
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Author : Rebecca Hall
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2021-06-01
Wake written by Rebecca Hall and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-01 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
'A must-read graphic history. . . an inspired and inspiring defence of heroic women whose struggles could be fuel for a more just future' Guardian 'Not only a riveting tale of Black women's leadership of slave revolts but an equally dramatic story of the engaged scholarship that enabled its discovery' Angela Y. Davis Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic. They fought their enslavers throughout the Americas. And then they were erased from history. In Wake Rebecca Hall, a historian, a granddaughter of slaves, and a woman haunted by the legacy of slavery, tells their story. With in-depth archival research and a measured use of historical imagination, she constructs the likely pasts of women rebels who fought for freedom on slave ships bound to America, as well as the stories of women who led slave revolts in Colonial New York. Beneath both is Hall's own tale: of a life lived in the shadow of slavery and its consequences. Strikingly illustrated in black and white, Wake explores both a personal and a global legacy. Part graphic novel, part memoir, it is a powerful reminder that while the past is gone, we still live in its wake.