Ghana Reader - History, Culture, Politics

Informationen zum Autor Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, editors Klappentext Kwasi Konadu is Professor of History at the City University of New York and the author of The Akan Diaspora in the Americas and Transatlantic Africa: 1440–1888.¿¿Clifford C. Campbell received his Ph.D. from the University of Ghana, Legon, and writes about African and African diaspora history.¿¿ Zusammenfassung Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this important West African nation, emphasizing Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations and its ethnic and cultural diversity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  xiii Introduction  1 I. One Nation, Many Histories  17 II. Between the Sea and the Savanna, 1500–1700  81 III. Commerce and the Scrambles for Africa, 1700–1900  125 IV. Colonial Rule and Political Independence, 1900–1957  207 V. Independece, Coups, and the Republic, 1957–Present  299 VI. The Exigencies of a Postcolony  361 Suggestions for Further Reading  457 Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources  461 Index  469

Product details

• Authors: Kwasi (EDT)/ Campbell Konadu, Kwasi Campbell Konadu
• Assisted by: Clifford Campbell (Editor), Clifford C Campbell (Editor), Clifford C. Campbell (Editor), Kwasi Konadu (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.02.2016
• EAN: 9780822359845
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5984-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: World Readers; The World Readers
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travel guides > Africa