Title Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression / Moses E. Ochonu

Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 217 pages) : illustrations, maps Series New African histories series New African histories series. Contents 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 Summary 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 cri Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Depressions -- 1929 -- Nigeria, Northern Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Britain British -- Nigeria, Northern -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Africa -- West. British British colonies Colonial influence Depressions Economic history Colonies -- Administration SUBJECT Nigeria, Northern -- History -- 20th century Nigeria, Northern -- Economic conditions -- 20th century Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration -- History -- 20th century Nigeria -- Colonial influence Subject Africa Great Britain Nigeria Northern Nigeria Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780821443118 0821443119

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