Samuel Fury Childs Daly

A History of the Republic of Biafra

Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781108743914
• ISBN-10: 1108743919
• Artikelnr.: 62231660

Autorenporträt

Samuel Fury Childs Daly is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies, History, and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. An historian of twentieth-century Africa, he is the author of articles in journals including Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, African Studies Review and African Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Law, order, and the Biafran national imagination
2. Sworn on the gun: martial violence and violent crime
3. Counterfeit country: fraud and forgery in Biafra
4. Burying the hatchet: the problems of postwar reintegration
5. 'A long heated moment': violent crime in the east central state
6. No longer at ease: fraud and deception in postwar Nigeria
Epilogue: war crimes and crimes of war
Archival collections consulted
Index.