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Informationen zum Autor Paul Nugent is Professor of Comparative African History and is located in both the the Centre of African Studies and the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on borders, but also on Ghanaian politics, post-colonial African history and the history of South African wine. His books include African Since Independence: A Comparative History (2nd edition, 2012) and A Decade of Ghana: Politics, Economy and Society, 2004–2013 (with M. Amoah, K. Aning and N. Annan, 2015). Nugent was the co-editor of the Journal of Modern African Studies from 2012 until 2017, alongside Leo Villalón, and has since joined the editorial board of this journal. He is also the founder and chair of the African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE). Klappentext By examining three centuries of history, this book shows how vital border regions have been in shaping states and social contracts. Zusammenfassung Whereas border regions are often treated as marginal! Paul Nugent demonstrates through a comparison of two African sub-regions that they are in fact vital in the process of shaping state forms and forging social contracts. Border regions are fundamental to the making of regional and national economies and to patterns of contemporary urbanism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Centering the margins: states, borderlands and communities; Part I. From Frontiers to Boundaries: 2. Configurations of power in comparative perspective: commerce, people and belief to c.1880; 3. Port cities, frontiers and boundaries: spatial lineages of the colonial state; Part II. States and Taxes, Land and Mobility: 4. Constructing the compound, keeping the gate: a fiscal anatomy of colonial state-making, c.1900-40; 5. Being seen like a state: frontier logics, colonial administration and traditional authority in the borderlands; 6. Border regulation and state-making at the margins: taxation, migration and contraband during the interwar years; 7. Land, belief and belonging in the borderlands; Part III. Decolonization and Boundary Closure, 1939-69: 8. Bringing the space back in: decolonization, development and territoriality c.1939-60; 9. The vanishing horizon of Senegambian unity: statist visions and border dynamics; 10. Forging the nation, contesting the border: identity politics and border dynamics in the Trans-Volta; Part IV. States, Social Contracts and Respacing From Below, 1970-2010; 11. Barnacle states and boundary lines: states, trade and urbanism in the Senegambia; 12. The remaking of Ghana and Togo at their common border: Alhaji Kalabule meets Nana Benz; 13. Boundaries, communities and 're-membering': festivals and the negotiation of difference; Conclusion. Boundaries and state-making: comparisons through time and space....
