LEADER 03257nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910827188003321 005 20230721010236.0 010 $a0-8214-4311-9 035 $a(CKB)2550000000036497 035 $a(EBL)1762845 035 $a(OCoLC)887504007 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000535170 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11364417 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000535170 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10523460 035 $a(PQKB)11354976 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1762845 035 $a(OCoLC)742512936 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse9452 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1762845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472441 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000036497 100 $a20090608d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aColonial meltdown$b[electronic resource] $eNorthern Nigeria in the Great Depression /$fMoses E. Ochonu 210 $aAthens, Ohio $cOhio University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (233 p.) 225 1 $aNew African histories series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8214-1889-0 311 $a0-8214-1890-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIllustrations; 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 330 $a Historians of colonial Africa have largely regarded the decade of the Great Depression as a period of intense exploitation and colonial inactivity. In Colonial Meltdown, Moses E. Ochonu challenges this conventional interpretation by mapping the determined, at times violent, yet instructive responses of Northern Nigeria's chiefs, farmers, laborers, artisans, women, traders, and embryonic elites to the British colonial mismanagement of the Great Depression. Colonial Meltdown explores the unraveling of British colonial power at a moment of global economic crisis. Ochonu shows that the economic 410 0$aNew African histories series. 606 $aDepressions$y1929$zNigeria, Northern 606 $aDepressions$y1929$zGreat Britain 606 $aBritish$zNigeria, Northern$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNigeria, Northern$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNigeria, Northern$xEconomic conditions$y20th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAfrica$xAdministration$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aNigeria$xColonial influence 615 0$aDepressions 615 0$aDepressions 615 0$aBritish$xHistory 676 $a966.9/503 700 $aOchonu$b Moses E$0912831 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827188003321 996 $aColonial meltdown$94056865 997 $aUNINA