Format:
XIII, 278 S.
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Ill., Kt.
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1283360993
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0230356060
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9781283360999
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9780230356061
Content:
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame
Note:
Includes index
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chronology of Major Events; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds; Chapter 2 The British View: The Chaotic World of Southeastern Nigeria; Chapter 3 The Twin Traumas of War and Influenza; Chapter 4 The Nwaobiala of 1925; Chapter 5 The Ogu Umunwaanyi; Chapter 6 The British Suppression of the Women's War; Chapter 7 "More Deadly than the Male": The Women's War in the British Imagination; Chapter 8 What the Women Wrought; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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p. 265-271. - Includes index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0230302955
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283360055
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230353404
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230302952
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Women's War of 1929 : Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Language:
English
