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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kwasi Konadu , Clifford C. CampbellPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.748kg ISBN: 9780822359920ISBN 10: 0822359928 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 03 February 2016 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 469ReviewsGhana captures all that is West Africa today-its hope and promise, its turbulent politics, its proud but vexed history, its vibrant popular culture, its long engagement with Pan-Africanist thought and aspiration. The Ghana Reader does full and eloquent justice to Ghana's rowdy and cacophonous history and to its luminous promise. The book's judicious and broad-ranging set of selections will serve as a brilliant primer for non-Ghana scholars and students-and travelers and tourists-and as a stimulating reminder for the already-initiated. -- Charles Piot, author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War Ghana captures all that is West Africa today-its hope and promise, its turbulent politics, its proud but vexed history, its vibrant popular culture, its long engagement with pan-Africanist thought and aspiration. The Ghana Reader does full and eloquent justice to Ghana's rowdy and cacophonous history and to its luminous promise. The book's judicious and broad-ranging set of selections will serve as a brilliant primer for non-Ghana scholars and students-and travelers and tourists-and as a stimulating reminder for the already-initiated. -- Charles Piot, author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War An important and timely book, The Ghana Reader fills the crucial need to better understand a nation that occupies a privileged place in pan-African-oriented life and is increasingly central to economic, political, and cultural cosmopolitanism. Insightfully framing the complexity of Ghanaian history and life and opening up paths for future study, The Ghana Reader will appeal to students and general readers alike. -- Jesse Weaver Shipley, author of Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music Konadu and Campbell have edited a volume that traces the complexity of Ghana, and its overall representation of a stable African state, in a series of short but insightful entries... The editors have done an excellent job in allowing all sections of Ghana, from farmers, slave traders, and intellectuals to imperialists, to speak and thereby represent Ghana's evolution to a modern nation-state that exemplifies the challenges and opportunities that face not only Ghana, but all of Africa. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. -- T. M. Reese Choice Ghana captures all that is West Africa today-its hope and promise, its turbulent politics, its proud but vexed history, its vibrant popular culture, its long engagement with pan-Africanist thought and aspiration. The Ghana Reader does full and eloquent justice to Ghana's rowdy and cacophonous history and to its luminous promise. The book's judicious and broad-ranging set of selections will serve as a brilliant primer for non-Ghana scholars and students-and travelers and tourists-and as a stimulating reminder for the already-initiated. -- Charles Piot, author of Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War An important and timely book, The Ghana Reader fills the crucial need to better understand a nation that occupies a privileged place in pan-African-oriented life and is increasingly central to economic, political, and cultural cosmopolitanism. Insightfully framing the complexity of Ghanaian history and life and opening up paths for future study, The Ghana Reader will appeal to students and general readers alike. -- Jesse Weaver Shipley, author of Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music Author InformationKwasi 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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