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Making headway : the introduction of western civilization in colonial northern Nigeria /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barnes, Andrew E., 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.
Series:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; v. 41.
Subjects:
Christianity and culture > Nigeria > History.
Missions > Nigeria > History.
Civilization, Western > African influences > History.
Identity (Psychology) > Nigeria > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Some theoretical concerns
  • Historiography
  • Indirect rule as a form of cultural transfer, 1900-35
  • Indirect rule and making headway, 1920-35
  • The cross or the crescent, 1900-30
  • Christian missions and the evangelization of the north, 1900-35
  • Twin revolutions, 1930-45
  • The Africanization of western civilization, 1930-60
  • The indigenization of modernity, 1950-65.