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Nigeria: modernization and the politics of communalism

Title
Nigeria: modernization and the politics of communalism / edited by Robert Melson and Howard Wolpe.
Publication
[East Lansing] : Michigan State University Press, 1971.

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Additional Authors
  • Melson, Robert, 1937-
  • Wolpe, Howard
Description
xv, 680 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Since 1960
  • Communalism > Nigeria
  • Communalism
  • Economic history
  • Politics and government
  • Social conditions
  • Kommunalpolitik
  • Politics and government > Nigeria
  • Social change > Nigeria
  • Economic conditions > Nigeria
  • Social organization > Nigeria
  • Nationalism > Nigeria
  • Kommunalpolitik
  • Nigeria > Social conditions > 1960-
  • Nigeria > Economic conditions > 1960-
  • Nigeria > Politics and government
  • Nigeria
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Modernization and the politics of communalism: a theoretical perspective / by Robert Melson and Howard Wolpe -- Nigerian politics in perspective / by Richard L. Sklar -- The Ibo and Yoruba strands in Nigerian nationalism / by James S. Coleman -- The social organization of credit in a West African cattle market / by Abner Cohen -- Communal competition, conflict, and violence in Kano / by John N. Paden -- Entrepreneurial attitudes and national integration: the Nigerian case / by John R. Harris and Mary P. Rowe -- Dreams and deeds: achievement motivation in Nigeria / by Robert A. LeVine -- Generalized cultures and evolutionary adaptability: a comparison of urban Efik and Ibo in Nigeria / by Richard N. Henderson -- Rank equilibration, tribalism, and nationalism in Nigeria / by Ulf Himmelstrand -- Politics of the kola trade / by Abner Cohen -- The political role of Ibo ethnic unions / by Audrey C. Smock -- Minority politics in northern Nigeria: the case of the Idoma Hope Rising Union / by Alvin Magid -- The military and politics: a study of the relation between the army and the political process in Nigeria / by M.J. Dent -- Education and integration / by David B. Abernethy -- Education and national integration in Nigeria / by Alan Peshkin -- Tarka and the Tiv: a perspective on Nigerian federation / by M.J. Dent -- The contribution of tribalism to nationalism in western Nigeria / by Richard L. Sklar -- Port Harcourt: Ibo politics in microcosm / by Howard Wolpe -- Contradictions in the Nigerian political system / by Richard L. Sklar -- Three perspectives on hierarchy / by C.S. Whitaker -- Bornu and Nigeria: "Political Kingdom" in a troubled nation / by Ronald Cohen -- Ideology and inconsistency: the "Cross-Pressured" Nigerian worker / by Robert Melson -- Situational ethnicity in Jos, Nigeria / by Leonard Plotnicov -- Authority and community in Nigeria / by James O'Connell -- Conclusion: communal conflict and communal war.
ISBN
  • 0870131613
  • 9780870131615
LCCN
72168377
OCLC
  • ocm00205066
  • 205066
  • SCSB-9040513
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library