Nigeria: modernization and the politics of communalism /
Melson, Robert,
Nigeria: modernization and the politics of communalism / - [East Lansing] : Michigan State University Press , c1971. - xv, 680 p. :ill,
Includes bibliographical references.
This volume on Nigeria is an interdisciplinary study concerned with the analysis of the effect of modern technological and economic development on ethnic, racial, religious, and tribal conflict which the editors lump under the term of communal conflict. The book consists of twenty-five papers by ten political scientists, five anthropologists, and an assortment of sociologists, geographers, economists, and educators. All the papers are concerned with some phase of the Nigerian civil war as the authors attempt to analyse and isolate the many social variables that contributed to
this bloody and deplorable conflict.
0870131613
Communalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Economic history
Nigeria
HN800.N5 / M44
309.1'669 / MEL
Nigeria: modernization and the politics of communalism / - [East Lansing] : Michigan State University Press , c1971. - xv, 680 p. :ill,
Includes bibliographical references.
This volume on Nigeria is an interdisciplinary study concerned with the analysis of the effect of modern technological and economic development on ethnic, racial, religious, and tribal conflict which the editors lump under the term of communal conflict. The book consists of twenty-five papers by ten political scientists, five anthropologists, and an assortment of sociologists, geographers, economists, and educators. All the papers are concerned with some phase of the Nigerian civil war as the authors attempt to analyse and isolate the many social variables that contributed to
this bloody and deplorable conflict.
0870131613
Communalism
Politics and government
Social conditions
Economic history
Nigeria
HN800.N5 / M44
309.1'669 / MEL