Village Work : Development and Rural Statecraft in Twentieth-Century Ghana /

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"Combining oral histories with decades of archival material, Village Work formulates a sweeping history of twentieth-century statecraft that centers on the daily work of rural people, local officials, and family networks, rather than on the national governments and large-scale plans that often...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Wiemers, Alice, 1982- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Politics and government.
Local government.
Economic development.
Central-local government relations.
Developpement economique > Ghāna.
Relations gouvernement central-collectivites locales > Ghāna.
Administration locale > Ghāna.
Economic development > Ghana.
Central-local government relations > Ghana.
Local government > Ghana.
Ghana.
Ghāna > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Ghana > Politics and government > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Villages and States in Twentieth-Century Ghana
  • Labor, Chieftaincy, and Colonial Statecraft
  • Statecraft and Village Development in "Nkrumah's Time"
  • Labor and Statecraft in a Chiefly Family
  • Improvising Government in the Granary of Ghana: 1966-1981
  • Project Village: Government by Village Work, 1982-1992
  • Conclusion.

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