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Calabar on the Cross River : historical and cultural studies
- Title
- Calabar on the Cross River : historical and cultural studies / David Imbua, Paul Lovejoy and Ivor L. Miller, eds.
- Publication
- Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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- Description
- xvii, 392 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Series Statement
- The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora
- Uniform Title
- Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Note
- "The papers in this volume were edited as a result of the Calabar Studies Conference held in April 2013 at the University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria."--acknowledgements.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-377) and index.
- Contents
- Keynote address : Reflections on Old Calabar studies through time / O.E. Uya -- Introduction : Calabar on the Cross River / Ivor L. Miller -- Departures from Calabar during the slave trade / Paul Lovejoy -- Material culture and European trade at Calabar in the eighteenth century / Christopher Krantz -- Cameroon and Atlantic trade via Calabar, 1750-1870 / E.S.D. Fomin -- Traditional modes of dress in Calabar and the Cross River Basin Dani Lyndersay -- The politics of abolition at Calabar, 1805-1858 / David Imbua -- The economic and cultural impact of Calabar on the Cross River region / Ute Roschenthaler -- The relationship between early forms of literacy in Old Calabar and the inherited manuscripts of the Cuban Abakua Society / Ivor L. Miller -- The postal service of Calabar, 1890-1960: historical cultural artefacts for contemporary tourism / Simon Heap -- The life and times of a Benin king in exile: Oba Ovonramwen in Calabar / Mark Oziegbe Ogba -- Calabar and the women's war of 1929: expanding Nigerian resistance narratives / Adam Paddock and Toyin Falola -- From cooperation to domination: the Calabar-Ogoja experience / Patrick O. Odey -- The conduct of the Nigerian civil war in the Calabar sector, 1967-1970 / Chukwuma Osakwe and Ubong E. Umoh -- The impact of the Nigerian civil war on Calabar / Abu S. Edet -- The 'Calabar woman' in contemporary Nigerian pop music / Idom T. Inyabri and James O. Okpiliya.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1260
- ISBN
- 9781569025710
- 1569025711
- 9781569025727
- 156902572X
- LCCN
- 2017018006
- 40027281263
- OCLC
- 982394111
- Title
- Calabar on the Cross River : historical and cultural studies / David Imbua, Paul Lovejoy and Ivor L. Miller, eds.
- Publisher
- Trenton, New Jersey : Africa World Press, [2017]
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The Harriet Tubman series on the African diasporaHarriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-377) and index.
- Added Author
- Imbua, David, editor, author.Lovejoy, Paul E., editor, author.Miller, Ivor, editor, author.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027281263
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1260