Research Catalog

Title

Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide : the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970 / edited by A. Dirk Moses and Lasse Heerten.

Publication

New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Moses, A. Dirk
• Heerten, Lasse

Description

xii, 465 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

The Routledge global 1960s and 1970s

Uniform Title

Routledge global 1960s and 1970s.

Subject

• Civil War (Nigeria : 1967-1970)
• 1967-1970
• Genocide > Nigeria
• Ethnic relations
• Genocide
• Nigeria > History > Civil War, 1967-1970
• Nigeria > Ethnic relations
• Nigeria

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Nigeria-Biafra war: postcolonial conflict and the question of genocide / Lasse Heerten and A. Dirk Moses -- Section I. Genocide and the Biafran bid for self-determination -- Irreconcilable narratives: Biafra, Nigeria and arguments about genocide, 1966-70 / Douglas Anthony -- Marketing genocide: Biafran propaganda strategies during the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 / Roy Doron -- The case against Victor Banjo: legal process and the governance of Biafra / Samuel Fury Childs Daly -- The Biafran secession and the limits of self-determination / Brad Simpson -- Section II. A global event -- The UK and "genocide" in Biafra / Karen E. Smith -- France and the Nigerian civil war, 1967-1970 / Christopher Griffin -- Israel, Nigeria, and the Biafra civil war 1967-1970 / Zach Levey -- Strange bedfellows: an unlikely alliance between the Soviet Union and Nigeria during the Biafran war / Maxim Matusevich -- West German sympathy for Biafra, 1967-1970: actors, perceptions and motives / Florian Hannig -- Dealing with "genocide": the ICRC and the UN during the Nigeria-Biafra war, 1967-1970 / Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps -- Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70 / Kevin O'Sullivan -- "And starvation is the grim reaper": the American Committee to Keep Biafra Alive and the genocide question during the Nigerian civil war, 1968-1970 / Brian McNeil -- "Black America cares": the response of African Americans to civil war and "genocide" in Nigeria, 1967-1970 / James Farquharson -- Section III. Trauma and memory -- Women and the Biafra-Nigeria war / Gloria Chuku -- "Biafra of the mind": MASSOB and the mobilization of history / Ike Okonta -- Memory as social burden: collective remembrance of the Biafran war and imaginations of socio-political marginalization in contemporary Nigeria / Edlyne Anugwom -- The Asaba massacre and the Nigerian civil war: reclaiming hidden history / S. Elizabeth Bird and Fraser Ottanelli -- Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe's quest for a country / Mpalive-Hangson Msiska.

Call Number

Sc E 18-261

ISBN

• 9780415347587
• 0415347580
• 9781315229294 (canceled/invalid)
• 1315229293 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2017004188
• 40027346489

OCLC

958459325

Title

Postcolonial Conflict and the Question of Genocide : the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970 / edited by A. Dirk Moses and Lasse Heerten.

Publisher

New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The Routledge global 1960s and 1970s

Routledge global 1960s and 1970s.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1967-1970

Added Author

Moses, A. Dirk, editor.

Heerten, Lasse, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40027346489

Research Call Number

Sc E 18-261