How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600 by Jan Vansina

How Societies Are Born: Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600

Jan Vansina

325 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

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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 o...

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