Precolonial Nigeria
Subtitle: essays in honor of Toyin Falola
By: edited by Akinwumi Ogundiran.
Contributors: Falola, Toyin.; Ogundiran, Akinwumi.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 556
Subjects: Nigeria -- History -- To 1851; Nigeria -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Introduction. Themes and directions in the history of precolonial Nigeria / Akinwumi Ogundiran; title: Toyin Falola and the history of nineteenth century / Yorubal and Akinwumi Ogundiran. II. Early Foundations. Early agricultural societies : innovations in technology and economy before AD 100 / Raphael Alabi; title: The First Millennium B.C. crisis and its aftermath : a history of human occupation in northeast Nigeria / Peter Breunig; title: Metallurgical traditions : origins, technology and social implications / David Aremu.         III. Polities and Institutions. State formation in precolonial Nigeria : a historiographic assessment / Osarhieme B. Osadolor and Leo E. Otoide; title: Archaeology of Tiv setlements in the Benue Valley and implications for the history of Bantu Homeland / Bayo Folorunso; title: Igbo civilization : an archaeological and historical ethnographic profile / Ikechukwu Okpoko and A. M. Ibeanu; title: Women, power, and political institution in Igboland / Egodi Uchendu; title: Yoruba urbanism : the archaeology of Old Oyo and Ile-Ife as a case study / B. Agbaje-Williams; title: The Yoruba Palace as court of arbitration / O.B. Olaoba.  IV. State, society, and world systems. State and society in Benin before 1897 / Uyilawa Usuanlele; title: Religion, state, and society in Hausaland : history and the politics of incorporation in the Kano chronicle / Shobana Shanka; title: Kano as an entreport of the Trans-Saharan trade / Rasheed Olaniyi; title: Borgu : change and continuity before the nineteenth century / Richard Kuba and Olayemi Akinwumi; title: Crisis and catastrophe : warfare in precolonial northern Yoruba, Nigeria / Aribidesi Usman; title: Uneasy neighbors : Gbagyi and Nupe interactions, ca. 1300-1850 / Sule Mohammed; title: Ijo-Itsekiri relations 1500-1850 / Benjamin Okpevra; title: Water transportation in the Niger Delta, 1500-1900 / Edith Osiruemu; title: Atlantic economy and Aro ascendancy in Pre-Colonial Igboland : a reinterpretation / Pat Uche Okpoko and Paul Obi-Ani; title: The Atlantic slave trade and impacts on Nigerian hinterlands / Mohammad Bashir Salau   V. Prelude to Colonial Rule. Revolutions in the nineteenth century / Onaiwu Ogbomo; title: Transformations in the Niger-Benue Confluence in the 18th and 19th centuries / Maila.ya Aruwa Filaba; title: Christian missions and religious encounters at the Niger Benue Confluence / Femi J. Kolapo; title: Prelude to the British "Punitive expedition" to Benin : an analysis of the Gallwey Treaty of 1892 / Leo Otoide.