The land has changed history, society and gender in colonial Eastern Nigeria /
"A century ago, agriculture was the dominant economic sector in much of Africa. By the 1990s, however, African farmers had declining incomes and were worse off, on average, than those who did not farm. Colonial policies, subsequent 'top-down' statism, and globalization are usually cit...
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| Language: | English |
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Calgary [Alta.] :
University of Calgary Press,
c2010
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| Series: | Africa, missing voices series.
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : perspectives, setting, sources
- "We Have Always Been Farmers" : society and economy at the close of the nineteenth century
- Pax Britannica and the development of agriculture
- Gender and colonial agricultural policy
- Peasants, depression, and rural revolts
- The Second World War, the rural economy, and Africans
- The African elite, agrarian revolution, and sociopolitical change, 1954-80
- On the brink : agricultural crisis and rural survival.