Susan M. Martin

Palm Oil and Protest

An Economic History of the Ngwa Region, South-Eastern Nigeria, 1800 1980

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1988 book describes the rise and fall of the oil palm export industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521343763
• ISBN-10: 0521343763
• Artikelnr.: 29338300

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps and figure
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Ecology, society and economic change to 1891
3. The Ngwa and colonial rule, 1891-1914
4. The expansion of the oil palm industry, 1884-1914
5. The end of the boom
6. Cassava and Christianity
7. Authority, justice and property rights
8. Trade, credit and mobility
9. Production and protest: the Women Riot, 1929
10. Cash cropping and economic change, 1930-80
11. Conclusion
Statistical appendix
Notes
Interviews conducted in the Ngwa region, 1980-1
Bibliography
Index.