LEADER 03230nam 2200469zu 450 001 9910917599003321 005 20241222184518.0 010 $a1-4780-9418-4 010 $a1-4780-5982-6 035 $a(CKB)31399763600041 035 $a(EXLCZ)9931399763600041 100 $a20240411|2024uuuu || | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aSoldier's paradise $emilitarism in Africa after empire /$fSamuel Fury Childs Daly 210 $cDuke University Press$d2024 311 08$a1-4780-2659-6 311 08$a1-4780-3083-6 327 $aThe gavel and the gun : the inheritance of colonialism -- The soldier's creed : discipline as an ideology -- The portable coup : the jurisprudence of military "revolution" -- Oracles and autocrats : the uses of customary law -- Fela Kuti goes to court : the spectacle of inquiry -- The gift of martial law : military tribunals for civilians -- Coda: Militarism's denouement. 330 $a"Soldier's Paradise is an exploration of the ideologies that fueled military dictatorships in late-twentieth-century Africa. Through speeches and writing, the development of martial law, and public prosecutions, including the 1977 raid on Fela Kuti's compound, Samuel Fury Childs Daly provides a history of Nigeria's military dictatorship. In so doing, he also shows how the new nation's legal structures, largely inherited from British colonizers, were complicit with and facilitated military rule. Using an original collection of legal records, archival documents, and memoirs, Soldier's Paradise shows how law enabled militarism-and worked against it. Daly establishes Nigeria's military rulers as having recognizable theories and participating in legitimate structures of governance. In so doing, this book pushes back against some strains of African social history which try to position the militarism that affected the bulk of postcolonial African societies as aberrant. Instead, it explores how these governments worked (and didn't work) and why they appealed to civilians (and didn't). Long submerged by more hopeful ideological currents, militarism is now rising back to the surface of African politics. Soldier's Paradise describes where it came from, and why it lasted so long"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aPostcolonialism$zNigeria 606 $aDictatorship$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMilitary government$zAfrica$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPostcolonialism$zAfrica 606 $aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism$2bisacsh 606 $aLAW / Legal History$2bisacsh 607 $aNigeria$xHistory$y1960- 607 $aNigeria$xHistory, Military$y20th century 607 $aNigeria$xPolitics and government$y1960- 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 0$aDictatorship$xHistory 615 0$aMilitary government$xHistory 615 0$aPostcolonialism 615 7$aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism 615 7$aLAW / Legal History 676 $a320.966909/04 686 $aPOL045000$aLAW060000$2bisacsh 700 $aDaly$b Samuel Fury Childs$f1986-$01780528 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910917599003321 996 $aSoldier's paradise$94304659 997 $aUNINA