DAHOMEY AND ITS NEIGHBOURS 1708-1818

This book grew out of a Ph.D. thesis submitted to the University of London in October 1963. Its aim is to trace, with documents, the eighteenth-century political developments in Dahomey, the well-known approximately the southern part of the modern Republic of Dahomey, and whose capital was at Abomey. Its central theme is Dahomey’s attempt to create a politically stable and economically viable state. Economic questions are therefore important