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Political organization in Nigeria since the late Stone Age : a history of the Igbo people / John N. Oriji.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011Edition: First Palgrave Macmillan paperback editionDescription: x, 248 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9781137347213 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DT515.45.I33 O74 2011
Contents:
Igboland before and during the Iron Age : from stateless societies to mini states -- The Igbo and their neighbors before the fifteenth century -- The Igbo and the Benin, Igala, and Ijo mega states during the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- The Aro trade network : changes in Igbo society during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries -- Abolition of the slave trade and the geneses of legitimate commerce, Christianity, and the new imperialism -- Developments in Igboland from the 1890s to the 1970s.
Summary: "Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is know about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is then a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period"--
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Igboland before and during the Iron Age : from stateless societies to mini states -- The Igbo and their neighbors before the fifteenth century -- The Igbo and the Benin, Igala, and Ijo mega states during the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- The Aro trade network : changes in Igbo society during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries -- Abolition of the slave trade and the geneses of legitimate commerce, Christianity, and the new imperialism -- Developments in Igboland from the 1890s to the 1970s.

"Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is know about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is then a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period"--

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