Nigeria and the nation-state : rethinking diplomacy with the postcolonial world by Campbell, John, 1944-

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Culture : the story of us, from cave art to K-pop by Puchner, Martin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: How culture works -- Introduction: Inside the Chauvet Cave, 35,000 BCE -- Queen Nefertiti and her faceless god -- Plato burns his tragedy and invents a history -- King Ashoka sends a message to the future -- A south Asian goddess in Pompeii -- A Buddhist pilgrim in search of ancient traces -- The Pillow Book and some perils of cultural diplomacy -- When Baghdad became a storehouse of wisdom -- The Queen of Ethiopia welcomes the raiders of the ark -- One Christian mystic and the three revivals of Europe -- The Aztec capital faces its European enemies and admirers -- A Portuguese sailor writes a global epic -- Enlightenment in Saint-Domingue and in a Parisian salon -- George Eliot promotes the science of the past -- A Japanese wave takes the world by storm -- The drama of Nigerian independence -- Epilogue: Will there be a library in 2114 CE?…”


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Culture : the story of us, from cave art to K-pop by Puchner, Martin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: How culture works -- Introduction: Inside the Chauvet Cave, 35,000 BCE -- Queen Nefertiti and her faceless god -- Plato burns his tragedy and invents a history -- King Ashoka sends a message to the future -- A south Asian goddess in Pompeii -- A Buddhist pilgrim in search of ancient traces -- The Pillow Book and some perils of cultural diplomacy -- When Baghdad became a storehouse of wisdom -- The Queen of Ethiopia welcomes the raiders of the ark -- One Christian mystic and the three revivals of Europe -- The Aztec capital faces its European enemies and admirers -- A Portuguese sailor writes a global epic -- Enlightenment in Saint-Domingue and in a Parisian salon -- George Eliot promotes the science of the past -- A Japanese wave takes the world by storm -- The drama of Nigerian independence -- Epilogue: Will there be a library in 2114 CE?…”


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Culture : the story of us, from cave art to K-pop by Puchner, Martin, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Preface: How culture works -- Introduction: Inside the Chauvet Cave, 35,000 BCE -- Queen Nefertiti and her faceless god -- Plato burns his tragedy and invents a history -- King Ashoka sends a message to the future -- A south Asian goddess in Pompeii -- A Buddhist pilgrim in search of ancient traces -- The Pillow Book and some perils of cultural diplomacy -- When Baghdad became a storehouse of wisdom -- The Queen of Ethiopia welcomes the raiders of the ark -- One Christian mystic and the three revivals of Europe -- The Aztec capital faces its European enemies and admirers -- A Portuguese sailor writes a global epic -- Enlightenment in Saint-Domingue and in a Parisian salon -- George Eliot promotes the science of the past -- A Japanese wave takes the world by storm -- The drama of Nigerian independence -- Epilogue: Will there be a library in 2114 CE?…”


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Government in Kano, 1350-1950 by Smith, M. G. (Michael Garfield)

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Nigeria : struggle for stability and status by Wright, Stephen, 1954-

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The 60s : the story of a decade

Table of Contents: “…A note by Evan Osnos -- Though tribe and tongue may differ (Nigerian independence) / Emily Hahn -- Letter from Havana / Hans Koningsberger -- Letter from Vatican City / Xavier Rynne -- On the seventh day they stopped (Six Day War) / Flora Lewis -- Letter from Prague / Joseph Wechsberg -- The events in May: A Paris notebook / Mavis Gallant -- Part V: New arrivals. …”


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