A history of Borno : trans-saharan African empire to failing Nigerian state /
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| Author / Creator: | Hiribarren, Vincent, author. |
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| Imprint: | London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2017. |
| Description: | xii, 311 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10995605 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Note on terminology
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- 1. The Territory of Borno in the Nineteenth Century: (1810-1893)
- Borders between Muslim states
- A frontier policy
- An administrative state
- A feudal European kingdom
- A magnet for explorers
- A connected territory
- Borno as an historical landscape
- Metropolitan Borno and its vassals
- An actor of nineteenth-century geopolitics
- Conclusion
- 2. All Paths Lead to Borno
- The Scramble for Borno
- All paths lead to Borno
- Conclusion
- 3. The Quest for a Territorial Framework
- A territorial conception of Borno?
- Legitimacy and Borno
- A quest for territorial legitimacy
- Conclusion
- 4. The resurrection of Borno: (1902-1960)
- The provincialisation of Borno
- Conclusion
- 5. Re-writing the history of Borno
- The colonial heralds of Borno
- Conclusion
- 6. The reunion of Dikwa and Borno: (1916-1959)
- The conquest of German Kamerun
- Towards a Nigerian Borno
- Conclusion
- 7. The two plebiscites of 1959 and 1961
- The plebiscite of 1959
- The plebiscite of 1961
- Conclusion
- 8. Postcolonial Borno: a Failing Nigerian State?
- The rise and fall of Borno?
- The postcolonial survival of a nineteenth-century nation
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index