Author: Alan Frederick Charles RyderPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Benin and the europeans, 1486-1897
Author: Alan Frederick Charles RyderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
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Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897
Author: Alan Frederick Charles RyderPublisher: Harlow : Longmans
ISBN:
Category : Benin
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Benin and the Europeans, 1485-1897
Author: Alan Frederick Charles RyderPublisher:
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Category : Benin (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Benin and the Europeans 1485-1897
Author: A. F. C. RyderBenin and the Europeans, 1485-1897. [By] A.F.C. Ryder
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Author: Alan Frederick Charles RyderPublisher:
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Category : Benin (Nigeria)
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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The Benin Plaques
Author: Kathryn Wysocki GunschPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351254596
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The 16th century bronze plaques from the kingdom of Benin are among the most recognized masterpieces of African art, and yet many details of their commission and installation in the palace in Benin City, Nigeria, are little understood. The Benin Plaques, A 16th Century Imperial Monument is a detailed analysis of a corpus of nearly 850 bronze plaques that were installed in the court of the Benin kingdom at the moment of its greatest political power and geographic reach. By examining European accounts, Benin oral histories, and the physical evidence of the extant plaques, Gunsch is the first to propose an installation pattern for the series.
Beads and Beadwork of West and Central Africa
Author: Margret CareyPublisher: Bloomsbury Shire Publications
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Benin Studies
Author: R. E. BradburyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351031244
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This collection of R. E. Bradbury's papers, originally published in 1973 includes edited sections of his (then hitherto) unpublished thesis on the Benin village in Western Nigeria. The book is arranged in 3 parts: historical and political studies of the kingdom of Benin; Benin village organization and religion and art. An introduction by Peter Morton-Williams traces bradbury's development as an interpreter of the culture, society and art of Benin, beginning with his first studies in the filed and culminating in the important anthropological and historical essays.
Black Experience and the Empire
Author: Philip D. MorganPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191555517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or travelled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion. SERIES DESCRIPTION The purpose of the five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire was to provide a comprehensive study of the Empire from its beginning to end, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. The volumes in the Companion Series carry forward this purpose by exploring themes that were not possible to cover adequately in the main series, and to provide fresh interpretations of significant topics
Loot
Author: Barnaby PhillipsPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1786079364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
A Prospect Best Book of 2021 ‘A fascinating and timely book.’ William Boyd ‘Gripping…a must read.’ FT ‘Compelling…humane, reasonable, and ultimately optimistic.’ Evening Standard ‘[A] valuable guide to a complex narrative.’ The Times In 1897, Britain sent a punitive expedition to the Kingdom of Benin, in what is today Nigeria, in retaliation for the killing of seven British officials and traders. British soldiers and sailors captured Benin, exiled its king and annexed the territory. They also made off with some of Africa’s greatest works of art. The ‘Benin Bronzes’ are now amongst the most admired and valuable artworks in the world. But seeing them in the British Museum today is, in the words of one Benin City artist, like ‘visiting relatives behind bars’. In a time of huge controversy about the legacy of empire, racial justice and the future of museums, what does the future hold for the Bronzes?