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Shaping tradition : civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 /
Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial office...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston [Mass.] :
Brill,
2006.
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| Colección: | African social studies series ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of native states in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047410232 9047410238 1281400165 9781281400161 9786611400163 6611400168 |
| ISSN: | 1568-1203 ; |