Economic history of Nigeria
Subtitle: 19th and 20th centuries
By: O.N. Njoku.
Publisher: Magnet Business Enterprises
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Enugu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Nigeria -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.; Nigeria -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.; Nigeria -- Economic policy.; Nigeria -- Economic policy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgements; title: Preface.; title: Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION; title: The Centrality of Economic History;; title: the Environment; title: PART ONE: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; title: Chapter 2: AGRICULTURE: CROP PRODUCTION; title: Its importance; Agricultural Practice;; title: Crops and Tools; Forest Tree Crops: Oil Palm,; title: Rubber, Kola, Cocoa. Savannah Non-food Crops:; title: Cotton, Indigo and Tobacco; title: Chapter 3: AGRICULTURE: COMPLEMENTS TO; title: CROP PRODUCTION; title: Animal Rearing; Gathering,; title: Hunting and Fishing; Land; Labour.; title: Chapter 4: TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES; title: Soil-based Industries: Iron, Tin, Salt, Pottery; title: Chapter 5: PLANT-BASED AND ANIMAL-BASED; title: INDUSTRIES; title: Plant-based: Textiles, Mat and Allied Wearing,; title: Wood Craft, Calabash Carving;; title: Animal-based: Leathery, Ivory Craft; title: Chapter 6: INTERNAL TRADE; title: Local Trade. Long Distance Trade: the Eastern,; title: the Western and the Northern Systems;; title: Organisation of the Trade, Services to Trade -; title: Transport, Mediums of Exchange; title: Chapter 7: EXTERNAL TRADE; title: The Trans-Saharan Trade: Shifting Trend;; title: Organization of the Trade; Trade Commodities.; title: Atlantic Trade: The Slave Trade - Abolition Debate;; title: Organization and Resilience; the Impact.; title: "Legitimate Trade": Characteristics; Impact.; title: Nigerian-European Relations; title: PART TWO: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; title: (i) THE COLONIAL ERA; title: Chapter 8: COLONIAL ECONOMIC GOALS; title: AND INFRASTRUCTURE; title: Economic Motives, Infrasructure: Administration;; title: Transportation; Currency and Banking; title: Chapter 9: AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND; title: PRODUCTION; title: Export Production: Stimuli to production;; title: Principal Agricultural Exports - Palm Oil and; title: Kernel, Cocoa, Groundut, Cotton. Minor; title: Exports - Rubber, Timber, Benniseed, etc.; title: Domestic Staples: Yam, Cassava/Garri, Grains, etc.; title: Chapter 10: INDUSTRIAL POLICY AND; title: MANUFACTURING; title: Policy. Principal Extractive Industries - Tin, Coal,; title: Petroleum. Export - Processing and Import -; title: Substition Industries. The Balance Sheet.; title: Chapter 11: TRADE; title: Domestic Trade: Its neglect, Importance and; title: Dynamism. External Trade: From Laissez Faire to; title: Official Control; Expatriate Dominance; Nigerian; title: Traders on the Margin.; title: (ii) THE POST-COLONIAL PERIOD; title: Chapter 12:, GOVERNMENT AGRICULTURAL; title: POLICIES AND PROGRAMMES; title: (i) The Pre-Petroleum Era, 1960-69: The Southern; title: Programmes - Government Plantations; Farm; title: Settlements, Poultry Explinsion Scheme;; title: the Smallholder Tree-Crop Scheme. The Northern; title: Programme: the Demonstration Extension Programme; title: (ii) The Petroleum Era, 1970-2000: ADP, NAFPP, RBDP,; title: OFN, GR, DFRRI, BLRWP. The Balance Sheet.; title: Chapter 13: PERVETED INDUSTRIALISATION; title: Cultivating the ground; the Industries and their; title: chateracteristics: the Iron and Steel Mills, etc;; title: Control and Ownership; Petroleum;; title: the Construction Sector. The Balance Sheet.; title: Chapter 14: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL DYNAMICS; title: OF THE ECONOMY; title: Politics and the Economy; Misplaced Priorities,; title: Extravagance and Destitution; Ethnic and; title: Religious Conflicts.; title: INDEX.