Urban Politics in Nigeria / Howard Wolpe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolpe, Howard, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

CHAPTER 1. Introduction

PART I. The Setting

CHAPTER 2. An Introduction to Port Harcourt

CHAPTER 3. The Regional Backdrop

PART II. Changing Patterns of Community Power

CHAPTER 4. The Formative Years: Land Acquisition and the Colonial Presence (1913-1919)

CHAPTER 5. The Political Coalescence of the African Community (1920-1943)

CHAPTER 6. The Transfer of Power (1944-1954)

PART III. Community Power in Prewar Port Harcourt (1955-1965)

CHAPTER 7. Democracy, Opportunism, and Geo-Ethnicity

CHAPTER 8. Proletarian Protest

CHAPTER 9. Church and School in the City: The Politics of Religion

CHAPTER 10. Oil, War, and Nationality

PART IV. Conclusions

CHAPTER 11. Communalism and Communal Conflict in Fort Harcourt

APPENDIX 1. Methods and Data

APPENDIX 2. Port Harcourt Parliamentarians (1945-1966)

APPENDIX 3. Port Harcourt Municipal Councillors (1955-1958)

APPENDIX 4. Port Harcourt Municipal Councillors {1958-1961)

APPENDIX 5. Port Harcourt Municipal Councillors (1961-1964)

APPENDIX 6. Excerpts from the Floyer Report

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520333956

0520333950

OCLC:

1224278641