Conquest and construction : : palace architecture in northern Cameroon / / by Mark Dike DeLancey.

• Superior document: African history ; v. 5
• Author: DeLancey, Mark Dike, 1973-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: African History 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; Architectural Form /; Political Symbolism /; Spatial Orientation /; Ritual Movement /; Secrecy /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004316124
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Mark Dike DeLancey.

In Conquest and Construction Mark Dike DeLancey investigates the palace architecture of northern Cameroon, a region that was conquered in the early nineteenth century by primarily semi-nomadic, pastoralist, Muslim, Fulɓe forces and incorporated as the largest emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate. Palace architecture is considered first and foremost as political in nature, and therefore as responding not only to the needs and expectations of the conquerors, but also to those of the largely sedentary, agricultural, non-Muslim conquered peoples who constituted the majority population. In the process of reconciling the cultures of these various constituents, new architectural forms and local identities were constructed.