Victorian Lagos

Echeruo, Michael J.C.

ISBN 10: 0333226429 / ISBN 13: 9780333226421

Published by Macmillan & Co Ltd, London, 1977

About this Item

VICTORIAN LAGOS Aspects of Nineteenth Century Lagos Life. Michael J. C. Echeruo. Macmillan London. 1977 First Edition ISBN 0333226429 124pp This copy is in mint, unmarked condition, bright, white, tight and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is lightly sunned to the spine so near mint. This detailed observation of an emerging elite class under colonial rule during the second half of the 19th century is written with the assistance of contemporary archives of the Lagos Press. The growing independence of the Lagos elite during this period and the change in the colonial equation from Britain as colonizer to Britain as source of the tools for modernization. The book deals primarily with the origins of Nigeria's intellectual history, its conclusions have implications for the understanding of those communities faced with similar 'colonial' cultural pressures. Ref U2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Victorian Lagos
• Publisher: Macmillan & Co Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0333226429
• ISBN 13: 9780333226421
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Mint
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Mint

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Synopsis

iv, 124 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm.