Building the Ghanaian Nation-State - Kwame Nkrumah''s Symbolic Nationalism

Informationen zum Autor Harcourt Fuller is an Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, USA. Klappentext Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons. Zusammenfassung Ghana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination! due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency! stamps! museums! flags! and other public icons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism 1. Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State 2. Philatelic Nationalism 3. Economic Nationalism 4. Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor 5. Exhibiting the Nation 6. Monumental Nationalism 7. Pan-African Nationalism 8. The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah 9. The Death and Resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah Conclusion: From Redeemer to Redeemed

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Introduction: The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism 1. Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State 2. Philatelic Nationalism 3. Economic Nationalism 4. Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor 5. Exhibiting the Nation 6. Monumental Nationalism 7. Pan-African Nationalism 8. The Downfall of Kwame Nkrumah 9. The Death and Resurrection of Kwame Nkrumah Conclusion: From Redeemer to Redeemed

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• Authors: H Fuller, H. Fuller, Harcourt Fuller
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2014
• EAN: 9781137448569
• ISBN: 978-1-137-44856-9
• No. of pages: 294
• Series: African Histories and Modernities; African Histories and Modernit; African Histories and Modernities; African Histories and Modernit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; B, Sociology, Political Science, Africa, Political Sociology, Colonialism & imperialism, Politics & government, Political science & theory, African History, African Politics, imperialism, Palgrave History Collection, Imperialism and Colonialism, Africa—Politics and government, Africa—History, Africa;death;nationalism;state