Author: F. M. Bourret
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Ghana, the Road to Independence, 1919-1957
Author: F. M. Bourret
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Ghana
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
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Ghana
Author: Florence Mabel Bourret
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The History of Ghana
Author: Roger S. Gocking
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313061300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement challenged British rule, and in 1957 Ghana became independent. Independence brought its own challenges the most important of which was the inability to maintain political stability. Within the space of 24 years there were four military coups and the collapse of three republics. Ghana's Fourth Republic, established in 1993, has dealt with the legacy of instability inherited from the past as it moves towards a more stable future. A timeline, photographs, maps, and an appendix of biographies of notable figures in the history of Ghana are included. Students and adults alike will find this book to be highly effective in describing the often turbulent and tumultuous history of this country.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313061300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement challenged British rule, and in 1957 Ghana became independent. Independence brought its own challenges the most important of which was the inability to maintain political stability. Within the space of 24 years there were four military coups and the collapse of three republics. Ghana's Fourth Republic, established in 1993, has dealt with the legacy of instability inherited from the past as it moves towards a more stable future. A timeline, photographs, maps, and an appendix of biographies of notable figures in the history of Ghana are included. Students and adults alike will find this book to be highly effective in describing the often turbulent and tumultuous history of this country.
Ghana : the Road to Independence, 1919-1957
Author: F. M. Bourret
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Ghana's First Republic 1960-1966
Author: Trevor Jones
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003806791
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa’s twentieth-century history. Kwame Nkrumah, the dynamic leader who brought Ghana to independence in 1957, abandoned the Westminster model of representative government to which his country once seemed so well suited. He reached out towards the goals of Pan-Africanism and socialism, emphasizing the primacy of political action to regenerate his people and their continent. But his vision of the ‘political kingdom’ led quickly to the destruction of his Republic and his hopes. Using the (then) latest evidence to examine political life, parliament, civil service, farmers, workers and army in Ghana’s first Republic, the author argues that Nkrumah’s experiment failed because his rule was strong enough to distort traditional values but was unable to transform them. The result was a bizarre and paralysing mixture of despotism and anarchy which defied political analysis in conventional terms.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1003806791
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Originally published in 1976, this book describes one of the most important and colourful episodes in black Africa’s twentieth-century history. Kwame Nkrumah, the dynamic leader who brought Ghana to independence in 1957, abandoned the Westminster model of representative government to which his country once seemed so well suited. He reached out towards the goals of Pan-Africanism and socialism, emphasizing the primacy of political action to regenerate his people and their continent. But his vision of the ‘political kingdom’ led quickly to the destruction of his Republic and his hopes. Using the (then) latest evidence to examine political life, parliament, civil service, farmers, workers and army in Ghana’s first Republic, the author argues that Nkrumah’s experiment failed because his rule was strong enough to distort traditional values but was unable to transform them. The result was a bizarre and paralysing mixture of despotism and anarchy which defied political analysis in conventional terms.
The Anticolonial Front
Author: John Munro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316990648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316990648
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 347
Book Description
This is a transnational history of the activist and intellectual network that connected the Black freedom struggle in the United States to liberation movements across the globe in the aftermath of World War II. John Munro charts the emergence of an anticolonial front within the postwar Black liberation movement comprising organisations such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council on African Affairs and the American Society for African Culture and leading figures such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Claudia Jones, Alphaeus Hunton, George Padmore, Richard Wright, Esther Cooper Jackson, Jack O'Dell and C. L. R. James. Drawing on a diverse array of personal papers, organisational records, novels, newspapers and scholarly literatures, the book follows the fortunes of this political formation, recasting the Cold War in light of decolonisation and racial capitalism and the postwar history of the United States in light of global developments.
Communications in Africa, 1880 - 1939, Volume 5
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351571427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351571427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 1
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351112538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351112538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Communications in Africa, 1880–1939 (set)
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351112260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2144
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351112260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2144
Book Description
This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.