The Resource Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression, Moses E. Ochonu
Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression, Moses E. Ochonu
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- 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 downturn made colonial exploitation all but impossible and that this dearth of profits and surpluses frustrated the colonial administration which then authorized a brutal regime of grassroots exactions and invasive intrusions. The outcomes were as harsh for Northern Nigerians as those of colonial exploitation in boom years. Northern Nigerians confronted colonial economic recovery measures and their agents with a variety of strategies. Colonial Meltdown analyzes how farmers, women, laborers, laid-off tin miners, and Northern Nigeria's emergent elite challenged and rebelled against colonial economic recovery schemes with evasive trickery, defiance, strategic acts of revenge, and criminal self-help and, in the process, exposed the weak underbelly of the colonial system. Combined with the economic and political paralysis of colonial bureaucrats in the face of crisis, these African responses underlined the fundamental weakness of the colonial state, the brittleness of its economic mission, and the limits of colonial coercion and violence. This atmosphere of colonial collapse emboldened critics of colonial policies who went on to craft the rhetorical terms on which the anticolonial struggle of the post-World War II period was fought out. In the current climate of global economic anxieties, Ochonu's analysis will enrich discussions on the transnational ramifications of economic downturns. It will also challenge the pervasive narrative of imperial economic success."--Book cover
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xii, 217 pages
- Contents
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- Introduction. Crisis, Colonial Failure, and Subaltern Suffering --- Chapter 1. From Empire to Colony
- Chapter 2. The Depression and the Colonial Encounter in Northern Nigeria
- Chapter 3. Social Transformations and Unintended Consequences in a Depressed Economy
- Chapter 4. Protests, Petitions, and Polemics on the Economic Crisis
- Chapter 5. The Periphery Strikes Back
- Chapter 6. Economic Recovery and Grassroots Revenue Offensives
- Isbn
- 9780821418901
- Label
- Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression
- Title
- Colonial meltdown
- Title remainder
- Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression
- Statement of responsibility
- Moses E. Ochonu
- Subject
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- Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Britain
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Nigeria, Northern
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration | History -- 20th century
- Nigeria -- Colonial influence
- Nigeria, Northern -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Nigeria, Northern -- History -- 20th century
- British -- Nigeria, Northern -- History -- 20th century
- Language
- eng
- 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 downturn made colonial exploitation all but impossible and that this dearth of profits and surpluses frustrated the colonial administration which then authorized a brutal regime of grassroots exactions and invasive intrusions. The outcomes were as harsh for Northern Nigerians as those of colonial exploitation in boom years. Northern Nigerians confronted colonial economic recovery measures and their agents with a variety of strategies. Colonial Meltdown analyzes how farmers, women, laborers, laid-off tin miners, and Northern Nigeria's emergent elite challenged and rebelled against colonial economic recovery schemes with evasive trickery, defiance, strategic acts of revenge, and criminal self-help and, in the process, exposed the weak underbelly of the colonial system. Combined with the economic and political paralysis of colonial bureaucrats in the face of crisis, these African responses underlined the fundamental weakness of the colonial state, the brittleness of its economic mission, and the limits of colonial coercion and violence. This atmosphere of colonial collapse emboldened critics of colonial policies who went on to craft the rhetorical terms on which the anticolonial struggle of the post-World War II period was fought out. In the current climate of global economic anxieties, Ochonu's analysis will enrich discussions on the transnational ramifications of economic downturns. It will also challenge the pervasive narrative of imperial economic success."--Book cover
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Ochonu, Moses E
- Dewey number
- 966.9/503
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- DT515.9.N5
- LC item number
- O25 2009
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- New African histories series
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Depressions
- Depressions
- British
- Nigeria, Northern
- Nigeria, Northern
- Great Britain
- Nigeria
- Label
- Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression, Moses E. Ochonu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction. Crisis, Colonial Failure, and Subaltern Suffering --- Chapter 1. From Empire to Colony -- Chapter 2. The Depression and the Colonial Encounter in Northern Nigeria -- Chapter 3. Social Transformations and Unintended Consequences in a Depressed Economy -- Chapter 4. Protests, Petitions, and Polemics on the Economic Crisis -- Chapter 5. The Periphery Strikes Back -- Chapter 6. Economic Recovery and Grassroots Revenue Offensives
- Control code
- 320802305
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xii, 217 pages
- Isbn
- 9780821418901
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009023500
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)320802305
- Label
- Colonial meltdown : Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression, Moses E. Ochonu
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction. Crisis, Colonial Failure, and Subaltern Suffering --- Chapter 1. From Empire to Colony -- Chapter 2. The Depression and the Colonial Encounter in Northern Nigeria -- Chapter 3. Social Transformations and Unintended Consequences in a Depressed Economy -- Chapter 4. Protests, Petitions, and Polemics on the Economic Crisis -- Chapter 5. The Periphery Strikes Back -- Chapter 6. Economic Recovery and Grassroots Revenue Offensives
- Control code
- 320802305
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- xii, 217 pages
- Isbn
- 9780821418901
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2009023500
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- System control number
- (OCoLC)320802305
Subject
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Great Britain
- Depressions -- 1929 -- Nigeria, Northern
- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Africa -- Administration | History -- 20th century
- Nigeria -- Colonial influence
- Nigeria, Northern -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
- Nigeria, Northern -- History -- 20th century
- British -- Nigeria, Northern -- History -- 20th century
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