Colonial meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression
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1. Verfasser: Ochonu, Moses E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Athens, Ohio Ohio University Press c2009
Schriftenreihe:New African histories series
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Crisis, Colonial Failure, and Subaltern Suffering; One: From Empire to Colony: The Great Depression and Nigeria; Two: The Depression and the Colonial Encounter in Northern Nigeria; Three: Social Transformations and Unintended Consequences in a Depressed Economy; Four: Protests, Petitions, and Polemics on the Economic Crisis; Five: The Periphery Strikes Back: Idoma Division, Colonial Reengineering, and the Great Depression; Six: Economic Recovery and Grassroots Revenue Offensives; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. In Colonial Meltdown, Moses E. Ochonu challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive responses of Northern Nigeria's chiefs, farmers, laborers, artisans, women, traders, and embryonic elites to the British colonial mismanagement of the Great Depression. Colonial Meltdown explores the unraveling of British colonial power at a moment of global economic cri
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ISBN:0821418890
0821418904
0821443119
9780821443118

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