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xi, 364 pages : maps. ; 22 cm. |
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The Praeger library of African affairs
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Sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council
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Praeger library of African affairs.
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Sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
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| Contents |
The city and modernisation: an introduction, by H. Miner.--Comparative analysis of processes of modernisation, by D. Lerner.--Motives and methods: reflections on a study in Lagos, by P. Marris.--Africa and the theory of optimum city size, by J.J. Spengler.--Urbanisation and economic growth: the cases of two white settler territories, by W.J. Barber.--Structural discontinuities in African towns: some aspects of racial pluralism, by L. Kuper.--The political structure of urban-centered African communities, by W.J. Hanna and J.L. Hanna.--Bureaucracy and urban symbol systems, by L. Tiger.--Father-child relationships and changing life-styles in Ibadan, Nigeria, by R.A. Levine, N.H. Klein and C.R. Owen.--Environmental change, types of descent, and child rearing practices, by R. Clignet.--Kampala-Mengo, by A. Southall.--List of works cited (p. 337-353). |
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Cities and towns -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Cities and towns. |
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Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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Urbanization -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Urbanization. |
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Villes -- Afrique noire. |
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Urbanisation -- Afrique noire. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Miner, Horace (Horace Mitchell), 1912-1993.
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Joint Committee on African Studies.
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