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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 J.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2005Description: xxx, 245 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.Subject(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 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.