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The Ghana Reader : History, Culture, Politics /
"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&...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ancestral faces / Kwesi Brew
- The Holocene archaeology of Ghana / Ann Brower Stahl
- Quest for the river, creation of the path / Kwasi Konadu
- A creation story and a "Beautiful prayer" to Tano / R.S. Rattray
- Folk songs of Ghana / J.H. Kwabena Nketia
- Bono-Takyiman oral traditions / Dennis Warren and Owusu Brempong
- Oral traditions of Adanse and Denkyira / Kwame Y. Daaku
- An account of early Asante / Agyeman Prempeh I
- Fante oral traditions : Kwamankese and Komenda / John K. Fynn
- Archaeological reflections on Ghanaian traditions of origin / Kwaku Effah-Gyamfi
- Prelude to the Atlantic slave trade / Gerard L. Chouin and Christopher R. DeCorse
- Encounter with Europe / Kwesi Brew
- The Voyage of Eustache de la Fosse / Eustache de la Fosse
- A view of the Gold Coast from the Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis / Duarte Pacheco Pereira
- Letter from Mina governor to the Queen [Catarina] / Afonso Gonçalves Botafogo
- A report on Mina / Anonymous
- The gold kingdom of Guinea / Pieter de Marees
- Letter 17 / Jean Barbot
- Treaties between Gold Coast polities and the King of Denmark and the Danish Africa Company / Ole Justesen
- The Dutch and the Gold Coast / Albert van Danztig
- Denkyira in the making of Asante / T.C. McCaskie
- Tarikh Ghunja / Ivor Wilks, Nehemia Levtzion, and Bruce M. Haight
- The various nations of Blacks in Guinea / Christian G.A. Oldendorp
- Revolt on a Danish slaving voyage / Paul Erdmann Isert
- Journal and correspondences of H.W. Daendels / Herman Willem Daendels
- The "Bowdich" Treaty with Asante and the oath at Nyankumasi / Anonymous
- She who blazed a trail : Akyaawa Yikwan of Asante / Ivor Wilks
- Plantations and labor in the southeast Gold Coast / Ray Kea
- Petition of the principal mulatto females of the Gold Coast / Multiple Signatories
- Grievances of the Gold Coast chiefs / Richard Pine
- Proclamation of George Cumine Strahan / George Cumine Strahan
- Gold-mining and colonial capitalism in the Gold Coast / Raymond E. Dumett
- Between the sea and the lagoon : The Anlo-Ewe of southeastern Ghana / Emmanuel Akyeampong
- Hundred and fifty years of Christianity in a Ghanaian town / John Middleton
- The peoples of the Gold Coast hinterland / George Ekem Ferguson
- For the safety of the public, and the welfare of the race / Gold Coast Aborigines
- To the educated community in the Gold Coast colony / Carl C. Reindorf
- The petition of 1913 / Agyeman Prempeh I
- Fathering, mothering, and making sense of Ntamoba in colonial Asante / Jean Allman
- The Blinkards / Kobina Sekyi
- The trial of Akrofi / R.E. Obeng
- Of water and spirits / Sandra E. Greene
- AFRINHYIA PA O-O-O! / T.E. Kyei
- Reminiscences : the hill of knowledge / Kosi Kedem
- The ARPS and the National Congress, 1901-30 / David Kimble
- Women's conjugal strategies in a world of cash and cocoa / Jean Allman and Victoria Tashjian
- Report on the riots of 1948 / Commission of Enquiry into Disturbances in the Gold Coast
- History and national development : the case of John Mensah Sarbah and the reconstruction of Gold Coast history / D.E. Kofi Baku
- The administrative problem / J.E. Casely Hayford
- The employment of men : clerks, police, soldiers, and teachers, 1930-1951 / Stephan F Miescher
- Achimota : from the story my mother taught me / Abena P.A. Busia
- Women and their organizations during the Convention People's Party period / Takyiwaa Manuh
- Ghana : the pioneer guards the gate / Frederick Cooper
- Birth of Ghana / Lord Kitchener
- Independence speech / Kwame Nkrumah
- The Nkrumah government and its opposition / Kwame A. Ninsin
- Africa's resources / Kwame Nkrumah
- Ordained by the oracle / Samuel Asare Konadu
- Flight / Kwame Dawes
- Everything counts / Ama Ata Aidoo
- Story : patience and pleading / Gracia Clark
- Rebellion, revolution, and tradition : reinterpreting coups in Ghana / Maxwell Owusu
- Miracles and the message (1983 drought in Ghana) / Kwesi Brew
- Win the match and vote for me / Kevin S. Fridy and Victor Brobbey
- The 1994 civil war in northern Ghana / Artur Bogner
- "That all Konkomba should henceforth unite" / Benjamin Talton
- I am not brainwashed / Asirifi Danquah
- Hydro-power and the promise of modernity and development in Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher and Dzodzi Tsikata
- The Ghanaian media and national unity / George Sydney Abugri
- The return of the native / Kwesi Brew
- Toward a pan-African identity : diaspora African repatriates in Ghana / Obiagele Lake
- Slavery and the making of Black Atlantic history / Bayo Holsey
- The return through the door of no return / Seestah IMAHKUS
- Citizenship and identity among Ghanaian migrants in Toronto / Takyiwaa Manuh
- Chieftaincy, diaspora, and development / George M. Bob-Milliar
- China-Africa relations : a case study of Ghana / Dela Tsikata, Ama Pokuaa Fenny, and Ernest Aryeetey
- Ghana market women pay the daily micro man / Emily Bowers
- "The Slums of Nima" and "Fading laughter" / Kwesi Brew
- Ghanaian highlife / E.J. Collins
- Profile of five Ghana emcees / Msia Kibona Clark
- Kumasi realism : Alex Amofa / Atta Kwami
- Paradigm shift / Paul Gifford
- The funeral as a site for choreographing modern identities in contemporary Ghana / Esi Sutherland-Addy
- The United States, Ghana, and oil : global and local perspectives / Tom C. McCaskie
- Obama's visit as a signifier of Ghanaians' "colonial mentality" / Kwabena Akurang-Parry
- Mobile phones and our cultural values / Kwesi Yankah
- Ghallywood or the Ghanaian movie industry / Ernest Dela Aglanu and Samuel Nii Narku Dowuona
- Ghana's philosophy of survival / Kwesi Brew.