The Fall of Nigeria: The British conquest
| dc.contributor.author | IKIME, Obaro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-15T13:35:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-15T13:35:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1977 | |
| dc.description | This book tells the story of the British conquest of Nigeria. The subject here treated is one on which quite a few scholars, both Nigerians and foreigners, have written. What is attempted in this volume is therefore essentially a synthesis of existing works. I have been moved to do this synthesis largely by what I see as one of the crying needs of undergraduates in Nigerian universities studying Nigerian history. At the moment, the undergraduate must read at least ten different monographs and a sizeable number of journal articles before he can get an overall Nigerian view. With the soaring price of books and inadequate library facilities, many of our undergraduates are frustrated in their efforts to get a nation-wide coverage of this and other topics in Nigerian history. In this volume I present them with such a coverage with regard to the British conquest of Nigeria. This work is not meant to provide an excuse for not reading the more detailed and scholarly monographs which exist. Rather, it is meant to give a general picture which, it is hoped, will, by its inadequacies, indicate to which particular monograph the reader should turn in search of more detailed argument and narrative. | |
| dc.description.abstract | Introduction: The Suppression of the overseas slave trade and new trends in Euro-Nigerian relations; The Palm Oil trade and the growth of British influence in the Niger Delta; The New imperialism and the British conquest of southern Nigeria; Europe and Northern Nigeria in the nineteenth century: Prelude to the British conquest of Northern Nigeria; The British conquest of Northern Nigeria; The fall of Lagos; The fall of Calabar; The fall of Oyo, The fall of Ilorin; The fall of Brass; The fall of Benin; The fall of Aro; The fall of Tiv; The fall of Borno; The fall of Zaria; The fall of Kano; The fall of Sokoto. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 0435941410 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://nigeriareposit.nln.gov.ng/handle/20.500.14186/1033 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | London: Heinemann, | |
| dc.title | The Fall of Nigeria: The British conquest | |
| dc.type | Book |