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The Women's War of 1929
Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Matera, Marc/Bastian, Misty L/Kent, S Kingsley et al
ISBN/EAN: 9780230302952
Umbreit-Nr.: 9055458
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: xiv, 278 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
gebundenes Buch
Erschienen am 27.10.2011
Auflage: 1/2011
- Zusatztext
- In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
- Kurztext
- The Women's War is known to virtually all scholars of African History Examines the tensions of empire from a gendered perspectiveConsiders the perspective of both South eastern Nigerian women and British colonial officials First book on the subject to analyse British motives
- Autorenportrait
- MARC MATERA Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain. MISTY L. BASTIAN Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Onitsha Igbo society, media and modern magic in southern Nigeria, Nigerian Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century, as well as on British colonialists and their encounters with Igbo-speaking peoples from 1870-1930. SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of various publications including, most recently, History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach (2008, 2010); and Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009).