Benin and the Europeans 1485- 1897
Date
1977
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London: Longman Group Limited
Abstract
The Benin Kingdom—an historical perspective; The era of Portuguese monopoly; English and Dutch beginnings; The Capuchin missions; The Dutch at Ughoton; The slave-trade era; British encroachment;
Description
The Study of Benin History and Culture. Begun in 1956 under the directorship of Dr. K. O. Dike, the Benin Scheme was one of the earliest interdisciplinary projects devoted to the study of the history of Africa south of the Sahara. By bringing together anthropologists, historians, ethnographers, archaeologists, and concentrating their attention upon an African state renowned for the depth of its historical tradition and the richness of its cultural heritage, the scheme purposed to demonstrate that the past of an African people may be reconstructed in exactly the same manner as that of any other people for which similar evidence is available, and that the lack of certain conventional materials of historical research did not preclude research that measured up to the standards of modern historiography.