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