The Land Has Changed: History, Society, and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria
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Language
English
ISBN
978-1-55238-545-6
Africa: Missing Voices Series Information
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Perspectives, Setting, Sources
1. “We Have Always Been Farmers”: Society and Economyat the Close of the Nineteenth Century
2. Pax Britannica and the Development of Agriculture
3. Gender and Colonial Agricultural Policy
4. Peasants, Depression, and Rural Revolts
5. The Second World War, the Rural Economy, and Africans
6. The African Elite, Agrarian Revolution, and SociopoliticalChange, 1954–80
7. On the Brink: Agricultural Crisis and Rural Survival
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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