LEADER 03121nam 22004453a 450 001 9910917271403321 005 20250203232804.0 024 8 $ahttps://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv6gqqmd 035 $a(CKB)36721523700041 035 $a(ScCtBLL)30d7035a-7847-49eb-aaa9-ddb2b92a19a4 035 $a(OCoLC)1139948625 035 $a(oapen)doab90076 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936721523700041 100 $a20250203i20102019 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Land Has Changed : $eHistory, Society, and Gender in Colonial Nigeria /$fChima J. Korieh 210 $aCalgary$cUniversity of Calgary Press$d2010 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversity of Calgary Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 225 1 $aAfrica: Missing Voices 311 08$a9781552385456 311 08$a1552385450 330 $aA 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. 606 $aPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism$2bisacsh 606 $aSocial Science / Developing & Emerging Countries$2bisacsh 606 $aPolitical science 615 7$aPolitical Science / Colonialism & Post-colonialism 615 7$aSocial Science / Developing & Emerging Countries 615 0$aPolitical science. 700 $aKorieh$b Chima J$0801809 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910917271403321 996 $aThe land has changed$92032436 997 $aUNINA