{"product_id":"politics-economy-and-society-in-twentieth-century-nigeria-9781666929966","title":"Politics, Economy, and Society in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria, by Ayodeji Olukoju and Tokunbo A. Ayoola, examines key social, political, and economic issues in Nigeria since the colonial period. This book brings together writings on colonial, postcolonial, and contemporary history of Nigeria that provide a panoramic view of diversity, bridge gaps in Nigerian history, and engage with pioneering scholarship in railway and social history in Nigeria by James Olawale Oyemakinde. Some of the themes and perspectives discussed throughout this collection include: contemporary challenges of poverty, unemployment, leadership and governance deficit, entrepreneurship, urbanization, and the underdevelopment of the agricultural and transport systems. Politics, Economy, and Society in Twentieth-Century Nigeria demonstrates that understanding the past helps to develop appropriate policies for contemporary challenges. As highlighted in this volume, it is important to appreciate the significance of context in historical explanation and in the application and adaptation of ideas across space and time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together interesting perspectives on the socio-economic history of Nigeria: livestock management, railway historiography, coal industry, tourism industry, pre-colonial trade, family firms, political restructuring and other germane issues. All these are deftly analysed to expose not only continuities with the past but also points of departure and twenty-first century novelties. This will remain a major contribution to the literature on Nigeria’s economic history for a long time.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Olufunke Adeboye, University of Lagos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this captivating volume, its editors and erudite scholars, Tokunbo Ayoola and Ayodeji Olukoju, have produced a compendium impressively researched, beautifully written, and rich in information on pertinent issues on twentieth century Nigeria’s socio-political and economic history. This book, with contributions from leading scholars, is a stunningly provocative and revelatory intellectual work, one that will compel students, scholars, and policymakers, to reassess the Nigerian experience in the last century towards a better understanding of the contemporary state.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Adebayo Oyebade, Tennessee State University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword by Akanmu G. Adebayo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola \u0026amp; Ayodeji Olukoju\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I: Historiography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Wale Oyemakinde: The Scholar and Public Policy Engagement by Ayodeji Olukoju\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Wale Oyemakinde and Nigerian Railway Historiography by Tokunbo Aderemi Ayoola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II: Economy, Business and Trade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: The Nigerian Economy, Transportation, and the Tourism Industry by Oladipo. O. Olubomehin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Between Diversification and Dissolution: Family Firms in Twentieth-Century Western Nigeria by Ayodeji Olukoju\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5:Identity, Trade, and Warfare in Arogbo-Ile: Historicising Luso-Dutch Commercial andMilitary Activities in South-eastern Yorubaland during the Seventeenth Century by Olukoya Ogen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6:Journeying from Self-sufficiency to Disarticulated and Dependency Economy: Historicizingthe Long route to Economic Recession in Nigeria by Emmanuel Osewe Akubor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III:Railways and Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. Coal Industry, Railway and their Contributions to the Urbanization ofEastern Nigeria, 1909 – 1960 by Alexander Ugwukah and Abiodun A. Adesegun\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8:“Controversies and Rivalries: The Politics of the Development of the Baro–Kano Railway by Shehu Tijjani Yusuf\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV: Governance and The Political Economy of Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9:The Governing of Nigeria and the Politics of its Restructuring by Adedeji Aina Ademola\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: Historicizing the Nigerian State and Development by Jeremiah Dibua\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11: Draft Animal Power and Agricultural Production in Rural Northeast Nigeria: A Study in Cropping System History by Noah Echa Attah and Solomon Okpanachi Amodu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart V: Social Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12:Clothing the Natives: Police Uniform, Office Dress, and Negotiation of Identity in Colonial Nigeria by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13: Colonial Administration, Farmers, and Mixed Farming in Benin Province, Southern Nigeria, 1939-1955 by Uyilawa Usuanlele\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14: E-Voting System and Democratization in Nigeria by Olamide Samson Adelana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Editors and Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042028257623,"sku":"9781666929966","price":82.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781666929966.jpg?v=1750952694","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-economy-and-society-in-twentieth-century-nigeria-9781666929966","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}