Ghana : a political and social history / Jeffrey S. Ahlman.
By: Ahlman, Jeffrey S [author.]
.Publisher: London : Zed Books, 2024 [2023]Description: xv, 254 pages : maps, illustrations (black and white).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780755601561; 9781788314220; 9780755601585; 9780756601578.Subject(s): Ghana -- History | Ghana -- Politics and government | Great Britain -- Colonies -- AfricaDDC classification: 966.7 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 966.7 AHL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 022768 |
Received in December 2023.
I. Introduction : belonging and nation in modern Ghana -- Making the Gold Coast : the Gold Coast to the twentieth century -- Colonial networks : making nation and state in the Gold Coast -- Cocoa futures : state, society, and commodity production in the Gold Coast -- Conditions of protest : war, crises, and the politics of postwar agitation -- States of transition : nation and the politics of independence in a decolonizing Ghana -- II. The development dilemma : decolonization and debt during Ghana's 1960s -- The politics of precarity : dependence and development during Ghana's 1970s -- Sites of upheaval : the Rawlings revolution and the coming neoliberal age -- Conclusion : the contingent futures of Ghana's fourth republic.