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Informationen zum Autor 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. 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
