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280 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780814707722
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11 April 2011
Description
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...
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280 pages • first pub 1998 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780814707722
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 11 April 2011
Description
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...