Author: Alpern, Stanley B.

Price: $20.36

Category:African History
Publication Date:2011-04-11T00:00:01Z
Pages:294
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0814707726
ISBN:13:9780814707722
The only thoroughly documented Amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomey, an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a 'small black Sparta,' residents of Dahomey shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Updated with a new preface by the author, Amazons of Black Sparta is the product of meticulous archival research and Alpern's gift for narrative. It will stand as the most comprehensive and accessible account of the woman warriors of Dahomey.