1.

Record Nr.

UNICASTO00344100

Autore

Jones, Charles Williams

Titolo

Bede, the Schools and the Computus / Charles W. Jones ; edited by Wesley M. Stevens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aldershot, : Variorum, 1994

ISBN

0860784134

Descrizione fisica

X, 356 p. ; 23 cm.

Collana

Collected studies series ; 436

Soggetti

Beda : il Venerabile <santo>. De temporum ratione

Beda : il Venerabile <santo> - Opere - Influssi sulla scuola - Inghilterra - Medioevo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910917271403321

Autore

Korieh Chima J

Titolo

The Land Has Changed : : History, Society, and Gender in Colonial Nigeria / / Chima J. Korieh

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Calgary, : University of Calgary Press, 2010

[s.l.] : , : University of Calgary Press, , 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 p.)

Collana

Africa: Missing Voices

Soggetti

Political Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism

Social Science / Developing & Emerging Countries

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not farm. Colonial policies, subsequent 'top-down' statism, and globalization are usually cited as primary causes of this long-term decline. In this unprecedented study of the Igbo region of southeastern Nigeria, Chima Korieh points the way to a more complex and inclusive approach to this issue. Using agricultural change as a lens through which to view socio-economic and cultural change, political struggle, and colonial hegemony, Korieh shows that regional dynamics and local responses also played vital roles in this era of transformation. British attempts to modernize the densely populated Igbo region were focused largely on intensive production of palm oil as a cash crop for export and on the assumption of male dominance within a conventional western hierarchy. This colonial agenda, however, collided with a traditional culture in which females played important social and political roles and male status was closely tied to yam cultivation. Drawing on an astonishing array of sources, including oral interviews, newspapers, private journals, and especially letters of petition from local farmers



and traders, Korieh puts the reader in direct contact with ordinary people, evoking a feeling of what it was like to live through the era. As such, The Land Has Changed reveals colonial interactions as negotiated encounters between officials and natives and challenges simplistic notions of a hegemonic colonial state and a compliant native population.