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Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens, Ohio :
Ohio University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | New African histories series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.