Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories [[electronic resource] /] / edited by S. Aderinto

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2015.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.23096690904
• Soggetto topico: Imperialism; Africa—History; History, Modern; Social history; Imperialism and Colonialism; African History; Modern History; Social History
• Persona (resp. second.): AderintoS
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Note on Contributors; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Colonialism and the Invention of Modern Nigerian Childhood; CHAPTER 1 Researching Colonial Childhoods:; CHAPTER 2 Processing Juvenile Delinquents at the Salvation Army's Boys' Industrial Home in Lagos, 1925-1944; CHAPTER 3 Children's Masquerade: Performance and Creativity in Benin City; CHAPTER 4 "500 Children Missing in Lagos":; CHAPTER 5 "A World of Good to Our Boys": ; CHAPTER 6 The Colonial Office and the Employment of Children in the Nigerian Tin Mines in the 1950sCHAPTER 7 Framing the Colonial Child:; CHAPTER 8 Within Salvation: Girl Hawkers and the Colonial State in Development Era Lagos; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book brings together the newest and the most innovative scholarship on Nigerian children—one of the least researched groups in African colonial history. It engages the changing conceptions of childhood, relating it to the broader themes about modernity, power, agency, and social transformation under imperial rule.
• Titolo autorizzato: Children and Childhood in Colonial Nigerian Histories
• ISBN: 1-349-50559-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910796455503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II