The land has changed: history, society and gender in colonial Eastern Nigeria

Introduction : perspectives, setting, sources

"We Have Always Been Farmers" : society and economy at the close of the nineteenth century

Pax Britannica and the development of agriculture

Gender and colonial agricultural policy

Peasants, depression, and rural revolts

The Second World War, the rural economy, and Africans

The African elite, agrarian revolution, and sociopolitical change, 1954-80

On the brink : agricultural crisis and rural survival.