Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications (African Histories and Modernities)

by John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu (Editor), Victoria Ellen Smith (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2017

  $157.60

  This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buildings changed as the motives, missions, allegiances, and power dynamics in the region also changed.