The Ghana Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Kwasi Konadu, Clifford C. Campbell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

496 Seiten

2016
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5984-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical, political, and cultural perspectives on this iconic African nation. Whether discussing the Asante kingdom and the Gold Coast's importance to European commerce and transatlantic slaving, Ghana's brief period under British colonial rule, or the emergence of its modern democracy, the volume's eighty selections emphasize Ghana's enormous symbolic and pragmatic value to global relations. They also demonstrate that the path to fully understanding Ghana requires acknowledging its ethnic and cultural diversity and listening to its population's varied voices. Readers will encounter selections written by everyone from farmers, traders, and the clergy to intellectuals, politicians, musicians, and foreign travelers. With sources including historical documents, poems, treaties, articles, and fiction, The Ghana Reader conveys the multiple and intersecting histories of Ghana's development as a nation, its key contribution to the formation of the African diaspora, and its increasingly important role in the economy and politics of the twenty-first century.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	3.2.2016
Reihe/Serie	The World Readers
Zusatzinfo	53 illustrations, incl. 12 in
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	862 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Afrika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8223-5984-7 / 0822359847
ISBN-13	978-0-8223-5984-5 / 9780822359845
Zustand	Neuware