Calabar on the Cross River : historical and cultural studies / David Imbua, Paul Lovejoy and Ivor L. Miller, eds.

• Keynote address : Reflections on Old Calabar studies through time / O.E. Uya -- Introduction : Calabar on the Cross River / Ivor L. Miller -- Departures from Calabar during the slave trade / Paul Lovejoy -- Material culture and European trade at Calabar in the eighteenth century / Christopher Krantz -- Cameroon and Atlantic trade via Calabar, 1750-1870 / E.S.D. Fomin -- Traditional modes of dress in Calabar and the Cross River Basin Dani Lyndersay -- The politics of abolition at Calabar, 1805-1858 / David Imbua -- The economic and cultural impact of Calabar on the Cross River region / Ute Roschenthaler -- The relationship between early forms of literacy in Old Calabar and the inherited manuscripts of the Cuban Abakua Society / Ivor L. Miller -- The postal service of Calabar, 1890-1960: historical cultural artefacts for contemporary tourism / Simon Heap -- The life and times of a Benin king in exile: Oba Ovonramwen in Calabar / Mark Oziegbe Ogba -- Calabar and the women's war of 1929: expanding Nigerian resistance narratives / Adam Paddock and Toyin Falola -- From cooperation to domination: the Calabar-Ogoja experience / Patrick O. Odey -- The conduct of the Nigerian civil war in the Calabar sector, 1967-1970 / Chukwuma Osakwe and Ubong E. Umoh -- The impact of the Nigerian civil war on Calabar / Abu S. Edet -- The 'Calabar woman' in contemporary Nigerian pop music / Idom T. Inyabri and James O. Okpiliya.

• "From about the middle of the seventeenth century, Calabar emerged as a vibrant entrepôt where Europeans traded with coastal merchants to purchase enslaved people and raw materials destined for the Americas and Europe. Referred to as "Old Calabar" in the historical sources, this busy port was located on the eastern side of the Calabar River at the confluence with the Cross River and was the center of a vast network of international trade extending to the Grassfields region of Cameroon and to the Benue River valley directly north. The essays in this volume examine different periods of Calabar history, with reference to the early merchant accounts of local customs, twentieth-century reports of colonial historians and anthropologists, and late twentieth-century analysis by a new wave of Nigerian, Cameroonian and many international scholars. The wide breadth of these studies shows the historical importance of this small city in the Atlantic world, despite its relative loss of much of its economic and political centrality today." 

Ämnesord

Slave trade  -- Nigeria -- Calabar -- History. (LCSH)

Manners and customs.  (fast)

Slave trade.  (fast)

Social conditions.  (fast)

Nigeria.  (ascl)

Europe.  (ascl)

Cuba.  (ascl)

Cameroon.  (ascl)

Old Calabar polity.  (ascl)

political history.  (ascl)

trade.  (ascl)

Aba riots.  (ascl)

Nigerian-Biafran War.  (ascl)

slave trade.  (ascl)

manuscripts.  (ascl)

postal services.  (ascl)

abolition of slavery.  (ascl)

clothing.  (ascl)

material culture.  (ascl)

Calabar (Nigeria)  -- History. (LCSH)

Calabar (Nigeria)  -- Western influences -- History. (LCSH)

Calabar (Nigeria)  -- Social conditions -- History. (LCSH)

Calabar (Nigeria)  -- Social life and customs -- History. (LCSH)

Nigeria  -- Calabar. (fast)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Klassifikation

DT515.9.C35 (LCC)

966.944 (DDC)

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