The Ghana Reader

History, Culture, Politics
Herausgeber: Konadu, Kwasi; Campbell, Clifford C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. ¿ ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 163mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359845
• ISBN-10: 0822359847
• Artikelnr.: 42573624

Autorenporträt

Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell, editors

Inhaltsangabe

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