Book
Foundations of the Bida Kingdom
Ahmadu Bello University Press • Zaria, Nigeria • Published In 1981 • Pages: viii, 201
By: Mason, Mike.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The major theme of this work is the rise of the Bida Emirate from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The author covers a wide range of historical and political history, fully documented at the end of each chapter with commentary and numerous bibliographical citations. A large portion of this document deals with the relationship between the Nupe state and European governments (primarily English and French), with emphasis on trade and warfare.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Chief executive
- External relations
- Warfare
- Commercial facilities
- Internal trade
- External trade
- Revolution
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Nupe
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2014
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Western Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1970-1973
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1800-1901
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bida Emirate, Niger state, Nigeria
- NotesAdditional notes
- Michael Mason
- Derived from author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Birmingham, 1970) published under title: The Nupe Kingdoms in the nineteenth century.
- Includes bibliographical references(p. [185]-196) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84213178
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Nupe (African people)--History
- Bida (Nigeria)--History