03257nam 2200661 a 450 991082718800332120230721010236.00-8214-4311-9(CKB)2550000000036497(EBL)1762845(OCoLC)887504007(SSID)ssj0000535170(PQKBManifestationID)11364417(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535170(PQKBWorkID)10523460(PQKB)11354976(MiAaPQ)EBC1762845(OCoLC)742512936(MdBmJHUP)muse9452(Au-PeEL)EBL1762845(CaPaEBR)ebr10472441(EXLCZ)99255000000003649720090608d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrColonial meltdown[electronic resource] Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression /Moses E. OchonuAthens, Ohio Ohio University Pressc20091 online resource (233 p.)New African histories seriesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8214-1889-0 0-8214-1890-4 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 crisis. Ochonu shows that the economic New African histories series.Depressions1929Nigeria, NorthernDepressions1929Great BritainBritishNigeria, NorthernHistory20th centuryNigeria, NorthernHistory20th centuryNigeria, NorthernEconomic conditions20th centuryGreat BritainColoniesAfricaAdministrationHistory20th centuryNigeriaColonial influenceDepressionsDepressionsBritishHistory966.9/503Ochonu Moses E912831MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910827188003321Colonial meltdown4056865UNINA