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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ochonu, Moses E.

Series:

New African histories series.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Depressions--1929--Nigeria, Northern.

Depressions.

Depressions--1929--Great Britain.

British--Nigeria, Northern--History--20th century.

British.

Nigeria, Northern--History--20th century.

Nigeria, Northern.

Nigeria, Northern--Economic conditions--20th century.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Administration--History--20th century.

Great Britain.

Nigeria--Colonial influence.

Nigeria.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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 crisis. Ochonu shows that the economic

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821443118

0821443119

OCLC:

887504007