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Item Details
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THE WOMEN'S WAR OF 1929
GENDER AND VIOLENCE IN COLONIAL NIGERIA |
| By: |
Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, Susan Kingsley Kent |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£55.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230356060 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230356061 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
27 October, 2011 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
In late 1929, a remarkable series of demonstrations, protests, risings, and riots involving tens of thousands of Igbo and Ibibio-speaking women took place throughout southeastern Nigeria. In the course of what its perpetrators called the Women's War, more than fifty Igbo and Ibibio women were killed by British troops and an unknown number were wounded and otherwise traumatized. The Women's War marked a historical high point in West African resistance to colonialism, making an indelible impression on all who witnessed it, Britons and Africans alike. African scholars differ in their interpretations of the Women's War, while others simply dismissed the British actions as yet another instance of the violence that has attended colonialism since the Spanish first set foot in the Americas. They were that, to be sure, but a fuller understanding of how the 'tensions of empire' played out requires the historicization of colonial violence.This book brings together for the first time both sets of actors, analyzing their behaviors from the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants, and examining the various actions of the main protagonists within in a single, gendered analytical frame. |
| Illustrations: |
0, 1 maps, 5 black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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