West African challenge to empire : culture and history in the Volta-Bani anticolonial war / by Mahir Şaul and Patrick Royer

Object Details

Author

Saul, Mahir 1951-

Royer, Patrick Yves

Contents

The Scope of the War -- The Anticolonial Leadership -- War, Colonialism, and Anthropology -- The Ethnic Puzzle -- Intentions and Structures -- Colony, Postcolony, Hegemony -- The Volta-Bani War in Historiographic Discourse -- Our Sources -- The West Volta in the Nineteenth Century -- The Invention of the Village in the West Volta -- Ritual Ties among Villages -- Defensive Leagues -- The Institution of War -- The Muslim Houses of the Volta and the Beginnings of French Occupation -- Wahabu -- The Zaberma Allies -- Al-Kari of Buse -- The Beginnings of French Occupation in Northern Volta -- French Expansion to the South -- An Incomplete Colonial Occupation -- The Territorial Organization -- Models of Native Society -- Native Heads of State -- "Ruling over the Footpaths" -- Before the Storm -- The Colonial Administration in Dedougou: Maguet and Haillot -- The Marabout "Conspiracy" -- The Affair of the Guards -- The Conscription Campaign of November 1915 -- Maubert and Chiefly Policy in the Cercle of Bobo-Dioulasso -- The Call to Arms -- Planning the War -- The League of Bona -- War against the Cruel: Two Narratives -- The First Victories of the Anticolonial Party -- The Two Battles of Bona -- The Siege of Bondokuy -- Heading for the Great Clash -- Yankaso -- A Fallen Divinity -- Terror as Strategy: The War in the Cercle of Dedougou -- The Molard Column: Constitution, Armament, and Strategy -- Responding to Local Military Strategy: Molard's First Campaign -- Wiping Villages off the Map: Molard's Second Campaign

2001

20th century

Type

Books

Physical description

xiii, 404 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Place

Africa, French-speaking West

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Anti-imperialist movements--History

History, Military

Record ID

siris_sil_968548

Metadata Usage (text)

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