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Urbanization and Political Change : The Politics of Lagos, 1917-1967
by Baker, Pauline H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520020669
- ISBN 13
- 9780520020665
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.: University of California Press, 1974. A major study of the politics of tropical Africa's largest city which examines the impact of urbanization on the distribution and exercise of influence within the Nigerian capital as grew from a colonial town of 100,000 people to a metropolis with a population of over 1.25 million; the main thesis is that urban political structure in Lagos has shifted from oligarchy to communalism, defined as a form of domination in which political control is vested in a cultural aggregate whose members share a common identity and a sense of corporate solidarity; includes a fold-out map of the city of Lagos (corners slightly bumped, dust jacket slightly rubbed, with wear at lower edge of spine, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000398
- Title
- Urbanization and Political Change : The Politics of Lagos, 1917-1967
- Author
- Baker, Pauline H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520020669
- ISBN 13
- 9780520020665
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1974
- Keywords
- LAGOS CITY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa;
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