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How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600
How Societies Are Born Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600
Author: Jan Vansina
Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years? Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780813922805
ISBN-10: 0813922801
Publication Date: 7/20/2005
Pages: 325
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Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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