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Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana /

By emphasizing the centrality of human relationships to Ghana's economic past, Murillo introduces a radical rethinking of consumption studies from an Africa-centered perspective. The result is a keen look at colonial capitalism in all of its intricacies, legacies, and contradictions, including...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Murillo, Bianca (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]
Collection:New African histories series.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies
  • A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets
  • "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain
  • "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation
  • "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation
  • "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers
  • Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping malls.