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Calabar on the Cross River : historical and cultural studies / David Imbua, Paul Lovejoy and Ivor L. Miller, eds.

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]

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Additional Authors
  • Imbua, David
  • Lovejoy, Paul E.
  • Miller, Ivor
Description
xvii, 392 pages; 23 cm.
Series Statement
The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora
Uniform Title
Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora.
Subject
  • Slave trade > Calabar > History
  • Manners and customs
  • Slave trade
  • Social conditions
  • Calabar (Nigeria) > History
  • Nigeria > Calabar
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 and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 9781569025710
  • 1569025711
  • 9781569025727
  • 156902572X
LCCN
^^2017018006
OCLC
982394111
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library