Nicht aus der Schweiz? Besuchen Sie lehmanns.de
Emirs in London - Moses E. Ochonu

Emirs in London

Subaltern Travel and Nigeria's Modernity

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
390 Seiten
2022
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05916-1 (ISBN)
CHF 119,95 inkl. MwSt
  • Versand in 10-15 Tagen
  • Versandkostenfrei
  • Auch auf Rechnung
  • Artikel merken
Emirs in London recounts how Northern Nigerian Muslim aristocrats who traveled to Britain between 1920 and Nigerian independence in 1960 relayed that experience to the Northern Nigerian people.

Moses E. Ochonu shows how rather than simply serving as puppets and mouthpieces of the British Empire, these aristocrats leveraged their travel to the heart of the empire to reinforce their positions as imperial cultural brokers, and to translate and domesticate imperial modernity in a predominantly Muslim society.

Emirs in London explores how, through their experiences visiting the heart of the British Empire, Northern Nigerian aristocrats were enabled to define themselves within the framework of the empire. In doing so, the book reveals a unique colonial sensibility that complements rather than contradicts the traditional perspectives of less privileged Africans toward colonialism.

Moses E. Ochonu is Professor of African History at Vanderbilt University. He is author of Africa in Fragments: Essays on Nigeria, Africa, and Global Africanity; Colonialism by Proxy: Hausa Imperial Agents and Middle Belt Consciousness in Nigeria, which was named finalist for the Herskovits Prize; and Colonial Meltdown: Northern Nigeria in the Great Depression. He is editor of Entrepreneurship in Africa: A Historical Approach.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Traveling and Writing the Metropole in the Age of Modernity
1. Literacy, Narrative, and the Colonial Ideational Space
2. Emir Dikko's Metropolitan Adventures
3. Emirs in Britain
4. The Dikko-Nagogo British Connection
5. Metropolitan Travel and Utilitarian Literacy
6. Deepening Imperial Exploration, Imagining the Postcolony
Epilogue: The Persistent, Evolving Fraternities of Empire
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 21 Illustrations, black and white; 9 Maps
Verlagsort Bloomington, IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 744 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-253-05916-X / 025305916X
ISBN-13 978-0-253-05916-1 / 9780253059161
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Europa 1848/49 und der Kampf für eine neue Welt

von Christopher Clark

Buch | Hardcover (2023)
DVA (Verlag)
CHF 67,20