Our new husbands are here [electronic resource] : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / Emily Lynn Osborn.

Introduction : households, gender, and politics in West African history
Origins : the founding of Baté, 1650/1750
Growth : warfare and exile, commerce and expansion, 1750/1850
Conflict : warfare and captivity, 1850/81
Occupation : Samori Touré and Baté, 1881/91
Conquest : warfare, marriage, and French statecraft
Colonization : households and the French occupation
Separate spheres? : colonialism in practice
Conclusion : making states in the Milo River Valley, 1650/1910.