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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu , Victoria Ellen SmithPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG Edition: 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 6.064kg ISBN: 9783319392813ISBN 10: 3319392816 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 22 September 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"1. Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's European Fortifications.- 2. Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa?: Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic entanglements and national memory.- 3. 'Far from my native land, and far from you': reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the nineteenth century.- 4. Viewed from a Distance: eighteenth-century printed images of fortifications on the coast of West Africa.- 5. Illusions of Grandeur and Protection? Perceptions and (mis)representations of the defensive efficacy of European-built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, 17th–early 19th Centuries.- 6. Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, trade and politics in seventeenth and eighteenth century Gold Coast society.- 7. Fort Metal Cross: commercial epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast.- 8. European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions.- 9. A Theatre of Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and its Museum.- 10. Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the ""Door of No Return"": President Barack Obama and family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009.- 11. Re-Creating Pre-Colonial Forts and Castles: heritage policies and restoration practices in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1945 to 1970s."ReviewsAuthor InformationJohn Kwadwo Osei-Tutu is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana. Victoria Ellen Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ghana. She is Founding Curator of the Adu Boahen Memorial Library and Archive. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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