TY - BOOK AU - Ahlman,Jeffrey S. TI - Ghana: a political and social history SN - 9780755601561 U1 - 966.7 PY - 2024/// [2023] CY - London PB - Zed Books KW - Ghana KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Great Britain KW - Colonies KW - Africa N1 - 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 ER -