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Poison and medicine : ethnicity, power, and violence in a Nigerian city, 1966 to 1986 / Douglas A. Anthony.
Van Pelt Library DT515.9.K3 A58 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anthony, Douglas A., 1965-
- Series:
- Social history of Africa
- Social history of Africa series, 1099-8098
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Ethnic conflict.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects.
- Igbo (African people).
- Social conditions.
- Politics and government.
- Kano (Nigeria)--Ethnic relations.
- Kano (Nigeria).
- Igbo (African people)--Nigeria--Kano--Politics and government--20th century.
- Igbo (African people)--Nigeria--Kano--Social conditions--20th century.
- Igbo (African people)--Nigeria--Kano--Ethnic identity--History--20th century.
- Nigeria--Kano.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnicity--Political aspects--Nigeria--Kano--History--20th century.
- Ethnic conflict--Nigeria--Kano--History--20th century.
- Nigeria--History--Civil War, 1967-1970--Social aspects.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- x, 272 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford, U.K. : James Currey ; Cape Town : David Philip, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Ethnicity Enshrined: Igbos in Hausaland 31
- 2 The Ironsi Regime and the Specter of "Igbo Domination": January-July 1966 55
- 3 Purging the North: August-October 1966 86
- 4 From "Savages" to "Brothers": Official Representations of the Igbo, 1966-1970 119
- 5 "They Will Return": The Contradictions of Abandoned Property 147
- 6 "I Need to Get to Kano": Post-War Igbo Migration 175
- 7 Rebuilding Community, 1970-1986 217
- Conclusion: Religion and Ethnicity at Century's End 233
- Appendix The 1966 Disturbances 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0325070520
- 0325070512
- 0852559593
- 0852559542
- OCLC:
- 48691406
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