Making headway
Subtitle: the introduction of western civilization in colonial northern Nigeria
By: Andrew E. Barnes.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- v. 41; Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- v. 41.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781580462990
Subjects: Christianity and culture -- Nigeria -- History; Missions -- Nigeria -- History; Civilization, Western -- African influences -- History; Identity (Psychology) -- Nigeria -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some theoretical concerns; title: Historiography; title: Indirect rule as a form of cultural transfer, 1900-35; title: Indirect rule and making headway, 1920-35; title: The cross or the crescent, 1900-30; title: Christian missions and the evangelization of the north, 1900-35; title: Twin revolutions, 1930-45; title: The Africanization of western civilization, 1930-60; title: The indigenization of modernity, 1950-65.