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Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
Stephanie Newell
Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos
Stephanie Newell
Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how colonial perceptions of dirt and cleanliness structured colonial governance, urban planning, public health policies, and relationships between colonists and native Lagosians.
272 pages, 14 illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 20, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9781478006435 |
Publishers | Duke University Press |
Pages | 277 |
Dimensions | 230 × 151 × 15 mm · 406 g |
Language | English |
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