[PDF.86fy] Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey

Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey

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 | #646394 in Books |  2011-04-11 |  2011-04-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.78 x6.00l,.86 | File type: PDF | 294 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Inspiring and eye-opening|By Customer|I ordered this book to deepen my research on the s of the ancient African kingdom known as Dahomey. My earlier research barely scratched the surface of what this book reveals, and offers a look inside the lives of these women through the eyes of men who had traveled through Dahomey as well as some oral traditions passed down through genera| |“Today they [the s] exist as no more than footnotes to history. Only one scholarly work has been written about these women, s of Black Sparta by Stanley B. Alpern…and yet they made up a force that was the equal of every contemporary body of

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. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors,...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey   |  Stanley B. Alpern. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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