The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian History

Toyin Falola is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town, and Extraordinary Professor of Human Rights, University of the Free State. He had served as the General Secretary of the Historical Society of Nigeria, the President of the African Studies Association, Vice-President of UNESCO Slave Route Project, and the Kluge Chair of the Countries of the South, Library of Congress. He is a member of the Scholars' Council, Kluge Center, the Library of Congress. He has received over thirty lifetime career awards and fourteen honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on Nigeria, including A History of Nigeria; Nigerian Political Modernity; Violence in Nigeria; Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria, and Understanding Nigeria.Matthew M. Heaton is an Associate Professor in the Department ofHistory at Virginia Tech. His research interests are in the history of health and illness, migration, and globalization in Africa with particular emphasis on Nigeria. He is the author of Black Skin, White Coats: Nigerian Psychiatrists, Decolonization, and the Globalization of Psychiatry and co-author of A History of Nigeria.

• IntroductionMatthew M. Heaton and Toyin Falola Part I: Knowledge Production and Epistemologies of Nigerian History 1. Indigenous Knowledge and Oral Traditions in NigeriaToyin Falola 2. Archaeology, Linguistics, and Early Histories of NigeriaConstanze Weise 3. Islamic Education in NigeriaMustapha Hashim Kurfi 4. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography of NigeriaSati U. Fwatshak Part II: States and Societies to the Nineteenth Century 5. Prehistoric Developments in NigeriaPeter Breunig 6. The Origins of Kingdoms and Empires in Precolonial NigeriaVincent Hiribarren 7. State Management and Political Institutions in Nigeria before 1800Osarhieme Benson Osadolor 8. Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial NigeriaAribidesi Usman 9. Religion in Precolonial NigeriaShobana Shankar 10. European Contact with Nigeria and the Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeMatthew M. Heaton 11. Abolition, Legitimate Commerce, and Christianity in NigeriaAyodeji Olukoju 12. Political Revolutions in Nineteenth Century NigeriaToyin Falola Part III: Colonial Rule and the Making of Nigeria 13. The Conquest of NigeriaAbubakar Babajo Sani 14. The Colonial Administration of NigeriaOlufemi Vaughan 15. Colonial Economies of NigeriaSteven Pierce 16. Gender, Class, and Culture in Colonial NigeriaFunmilayo Idowu Agbaje 17. Nigeria and the World WarsOliver Coates 18. Political, Economic, and Social Change in Nigeria, 1945-1960Lynn Schler Part IV: Nigeria Since Independence 19. Federalism and the First Republic of Nigeria, 1960-1966Rotimi T. Suberu 20. The Nigerian Civil War and Its LegaciesRoy Doron 21. The Nigerian Oil Economy and the Rentier StateAdeoye O. Akinola 22. Dictatorship and Democracy in Nigeria, 1966-1999Eghosa E. Osaghae 23. Religious Nationalisms in NigeriaMatthews A. Ojo 24. Ethnic Nationalism and Minority Politics in NigeriaAkin Iwilade and Iwebunor Okwechime 25. Popular Culture, Literature, and the Arts in NigeriaToyin Falola 26. Women and Gender Relations in Twenty-First Century NigeriaAdanna Ogbonna-Oluikpe 27. Agriculture, Environment, and Sustainable Development in NigeriaChima J. Korieh 28. Architecture, Infrastructure, and the Built Environment in NigeriaToyin Falola 29. An Afrocentric Overview of Education, Health, and Welfare Service in Twenty-First Century NigeriaJamaine M. Abidogun 30. Federalism and Politics in Nigeria's Fourth Republic Cyril Obi and Godwin Onuoha 31. Dimensions of Nigeria's National Security and Development Challenges in Changing Global ContextsN. Oluwafemi Mimiko Part V: Nigeria in the World 32. Nigeria's Impact on Diasporic Cultures in the AmericasMatt D. Childs 33. Nigeria and the Global UmmaBrandon Kendhammer 34. Migrants, Immigrants, and the New Nigerian DiasporaOnoso Imoagene 35. Nigeria and African AffairsAdebayo Oyebade 36. Nigerian Diplomacy, Foreign Relations, and International EntanglementsToyin Falola Index