Politics and Society in South Eastern Nigeria 1841 1906

Auteur

Kannan K. Nair was Deptuy Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the former University of Malaya.

Texte du rabat

Originally published in 1972, this work draws attention to the interaction between the external agents of change (super cargoes, missionaries and consuls) and the changes that were going on in the internal political, social and economic structure of Calabar society.

Contenu

1.Structural Organization of Calabar Society 2. Social Change, 1841-56 3. Internal Politics & External Factors, 1841-58 4. Economic Stress: The 1860s 5. Lineage Rivalries: The 1870s and 1880s 6. The New Structure of Power, 1885-1906 7. The New Economic Forces, 1885-1906 8. Conclusion: The Primacy of Internal Factors. Appendices: A. The Structural Genealogy of the Efik B. A Note on Efik Names C. The Volume and Value of Trade in the Bights of Benin and Biafra in the Nineteenth Century E. List of Towns Represented on the Native Council of Old Calabar, 1903 F. British Consuls and High Commissioners in the Bights.