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
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Jan Vansina

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

Jan Vansina

356 pages • digital • 2004

3 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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