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001 2010025628
003 DLC
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008 100616s2011 nyuab b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780230621930 (hardback)
020 $a0230621937 (hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn475447129
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050 00 $aDT515.45.I33$bO74 2011
082 00 $a966.9/00496332$222
100 1 $aOriji, John Nwachimereze,$d1944-
245 10 $aPolitical organization in Nigeria since the late Stone Age :$ba history of the Igbo people /$cJohn N. Oriji.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2011.
300 $ax, 248 p. :$bill., maps ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIgboland before and during the Iron Age : from stateless societies to mini states -- The Igbo and their neighbors before the fifteenth century -- The Igbo and the Benin, Igala, and Ijo mega states during the trans-Atlantic slave trade -- The Aro trade network : changes in Igbo society during the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries -- Abolition of the slave trade and the geneses of legitimate commerce, Christianity, and the new imperialism -- Developments in Igboland from the 1890s to the 1970s.
520 $a"Although the Igbo constitute one of the largest ethnic nationalities of Nigeria and the West African sub-region, little is know about their political history before the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. This book is then a pioneer study of the broad changes Igbo political systems have undergone since the prehistoric period"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aIgbo (African people)$zNigeria$xPolitics and government.