Konadu / Campbell The Ghana Reader

History, Culture, Politics
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7496-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 528 Seiten

Reihe: The World Readers

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Konadu, Kwasi

Campbell, Clifford C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Reise & Urlaub: Führer, Landkarten, Pläne

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.