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

by Jan Vansina

Book Overview

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 of years?

Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In this complement to his previous study...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813922801
• ISBN13: 9780813922805
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher