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Power, culture and modernity in Nigeria : beyond the colony / Oluwatoyin Oduntan.
Van Pelt Library DT515.45.E35 O39 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oduntan, Oluwatoyin, author.
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the modern history of Africa
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elite (Social sciences).
- History.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Egba (African people)--Politics and government.
- Egba (African people).
- Nigeria--History--19th century.
- Nigeria.
- Nigeria--History--20th century.
- Power (Social sciences)--Nigeria--History.
- Elite (Social sciences)--Nigeria--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 191 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Contents:
- Before the modern : the burden of origins and traditions
- Incipient order : settlers and returnees making the nation (1850-1880)
- Making monarchy : political centralization on the colonial margin, 1893-1914
- Making the nation : identity and modernity on a colonial margin, 1918-1940
- Elites know their boundaries : power in medical discourses 1937-1950
- A nation unfulfilled : global ideas, Nigerian nationalism and the reorientation of elite power in Abeokuta, 1930-1950
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781138104235
- 113810423X
- 9781315102290
- 1315102293
- 9781351591614
- 1351591614
- OCLC:
- 1012345773
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