Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Historiography
Chapter 1: Wale Oyemakinde: The Scholar and Public Policy Engagement
Chapter 2: Wale Oyemakinde and Nigerian Railway Labor Historiography
Part II: Economy, Business, and Trade
Chapter 3: The Nigerian Economy, Transportation, and the Tourism Industry
Chapter 4: Between Diversification and Dissolution: Family Firms in Twentieth-Century Western Nigeria
Chapter 5: Identity, Trade, and Warfare in Arogbo-Ile: Historicizing Luso-Dutch Commercial and Military Activities in Southeastern Yorubaland during the Seventeenth Century
Chapter 6: Journeying from Self-Sufficiency to Disarticulated and Dependency Economy: Historicizing the Long Route to Economic Recession in Nigeria
Part III: Railways and Development
Chapter 7: Coal Industry, Railway, and Their Contributions to the Urbanization of Eastern Nigeria, 1909–1960
Chapter 8: Controversies and Rivalries: The Politics of the Development of the Baro-Kano Railway
Part IV: Governance and the Political Economy of Development
Chapter 9: The Governing of Nigeria and the Politics of Its Restructuring
Chapter 10: Historicizing the Nigerian State and Development
Chapter 11: Draft Animal Power and Agricultural Production in Rural Northeast Nigeria: A Study in Cropping System History
Part V: Social Development
Chapter 12: Clothing the Natives: Police Uniforms, Office Dress, and the Negotiation of Identity in Colonial Nigeria
Chapter 13: Colonial Administration, Farmers, and Mixed Farming in Benin Province, Southern Nigeria, 1939–1955
Chapter 14: E-Voting System and Democratization in Nigeria
About the Editors and Contributors