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001 2011033551
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008 110808s2012 iluab b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011033551
020 $a9781594603846 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a1594603847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn747232714
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050 00 $aDT515.45.Y67$bU86 2012
082 00 $a966.9/00496333$223
100 1 $aUsman, Aribidesi Adisa.
245 14 $aThe Yoruba frontier :$ba regional history of community formation, experience, and changes in West Africa /$cAribidesi Usman.
260 $aDurham, N.C. :$bCarolina Academic Press,$cc2012.
300 $axix, 249 p. :$bill., maps ;$c23 cm.
490 0 $aAfrican world series
500 $a"This book combines a series of previously published and unpublished papers and field notes."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBackground to the study of precolonial northern Yoruba -- The making of the Yoruba frontier: the pioneers -- Second wave: non-autochthonous migrant settlers -- The Yoruba frontier in the Age of the Empire, ca. 1500-1750 -- The Yoruba frontier in the Age of Revolution, ca. 1750-1900 -- Nineteenth-century missionary activities, resettlements, and merger agitation -- Conclusions: the place of northern Yoruba in African frontier studies.
650 0 $aYoruba (African people)$zNigeria$xHistory.
650 0 $aYoruba (African people)$xHistory.
651 0 $aNigeria$xHistory$yTo 1851.
651 0 $aNigeria$xHistory$y1851-1899.
650 0 $aFrontier and pioneer life$zAfrica, West.