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A History of Borno : Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State / Vincent Hiribarren

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Hiribarren, Vincent
Published
London : Hurst & Company, 2017.
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
xii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 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.
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ISBN
1849044740 (cloth)
9781849044745 (cloth)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-298) and index.
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