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Autore |
Ochonu Moses E |
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Titolo |
Colonial meltdown [[electronic resource] ] : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression / / Moses E. Ochonu |
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Athens, Ohio, : Ohio University Press, c2009 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (233 p.) |
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Collana |
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New African histories series |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Depressions - 1929 - Nigeria, Northern |
Depressions - 1929 - Great Britain |
British - Nigeria, Northern - History - 20th century |
Nigeria, Northern History 20th century |
Nigeria, Northern Economic conditions 20th century |
Great Britain Colonies Africa Administration History 20th century |
Nigeria Colonial influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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economic crisis. Ochonu shows that the economic |
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