Nigeria: modernization and the politics of communalism /

By:

Melson, Robert

Contributor(s):

Wolpe, Howard

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: [East Lansing] : Michigan State University Press , c1971.Description: xv, 680 p. :illISBN:

0870131613

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

309.1'669 MEL

LOC classification:

HN800.N5 M44

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	309.1'669 MEL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100135744

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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.

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