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State, Class and Underdevelopment in Nigeria and Early Meiji Japan

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  • © 1996

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  1. Sakah Saidu Mahmud

    1. University of Colorado, Denver, USA

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 1-11

  3. Problem, Method and Scope of Study

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Explaining Underdevelopment: An Alternative Theoretical Perspective

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 15-29

    3. Economy, Society and the State in Pre-Independence Nigeria and in Pre-Meiji Japan

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 30-56

  4. Regime Change and Social Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 57-57
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    2. Restoration and Social Transformation in Early Meiji Japan

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 59-78

    3. Politics of Independence and Social Change in Nigeria

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 79-101

  5. State and Capitalist Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. State and Capitalist Development in Early Meiji Japan

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 105-129

    3. State, Class and Underdevelopment in Nigeria

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 130-160

  6. Conclusions

    1. Conclusions

      • Sakah Saidu Mahmud
      Pages 161-170

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 171-210
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This book compares the social processes that explain Japanese development, beginning with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, with similar processes in post-independent Nigeria in its effort to achieve capitalist development. Before the Restoration and independence, both Japan and Nigeria lacked any prospects for further development. Japan, however, pursued fundamental social transformations of society leading to capitalist development, whereas Nigeria, following independence, has lacked any transforming ideals resulting in underdevelopment and social stagnation.

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  • University of Colorado, Denver, USA

    Sakah Saidu Mahmud

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