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Book Synopsis The Impact of British Rule Upon the Gold Coast Economy by : Ian Bullock
Download or read book The Impact of British Rule Upon the Gold Coast Economy written by Ian Bullock and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1901 uirixl 1957 the component areas of the Gold Coast - Ashanti, the Northern Territories and the Colony - were administered by the United Kingdom as a single colonial unit. In addition to providing a political framework for the development of nationalism and, ultimatelj^, the modern state of Ghana, British rule also influenced the local economy. The present study is concerned with tracing the political impact of Great Britain upon the Gold Coast economy, during the colonial period. Although there is good reason to believe that the original annexations were inspired by the possibility of economic advantages accruing to the metropolitan country, there is little evidence to support the view that deliberate ? exploitation 9 followed the establishment of British rule. On the other hand it is clear, in retrospect, that the policies adopted by the local Administration and the imperial Government were not always in the best interests of the Gold Coast. In particular, it was not until after 1945 that any serious attempts were made to counteract the development of an excessive dependence upon external trade. World War II was in many ways a critically importa nt period for the Gold Coast. By 1945 the political objective of self-government for colonial territories had been accepted by Great Britain, and the state was believed to occupy a more important economic role than had previously been allowed, The war-time expedients of state-marketing and various government controls over the economy were retained in British West Africa after 1945 - in addition, the governments of the four colonies undertook a number of new development projects, particularly in the industrial field. The prominence of public enterprise was one of the more significant colonial legacies bequeathed to the new state of Ghana in 1957-
Book Synopsis Money in Africa by : Catherine Eagleton
Download or read book Money in Africa written by Catherine Eagleton and published by British Museum Research Public. This book was released on 2009 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 12 papers from the 'Money in Africa' conference held at the British Museum, this volume brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to consider the role that money and trade plays in our understanding of African history. Ranging from the 10th century ad to the present day, the chapters cover the pre-colonial and colonial currencies of Africa, including copper, cowry shells, beads, manillas and gin; and coins, counterfeiting, banking and the symbolism of money in modern Africa.
Book Synopsis How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by : Walter Rodney
Download or read book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa written by Walter Rodney and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean. In each locale, Rodney found himself a lightning rod for working class Black Power. His deportation catalyzed 20th century Jamaica's most significant rebellion, the 1968 Rodney riots, and his scholarship trained a generation how to think politics at an international scale. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the west and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the abiding repercussions of European colonialism on the continent of Africa has not only informed decades of scholarship and activism, it remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
Book Synopsis Africa's Development in Historical Perspective by : Emmanuel Akyeampong
Download or read book Africa's Development in Historical Perspective written by Emmanuel Akyeampong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-11 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why has Africa remained persistently poor over its recorded history? Has Africa always been poor? What has been the nature of Africa's poverty and how do we explain its origins? This volume takes a necessary interdisciplinary approach to these questions by bringing together perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, history, anthropology, political science, and economics. Several contributors note that Africa's development was at par with many areas of Europe in the first millennium of the Common Era. Why Africa fell behind is a key theme in this volume, with insights that should inform Africa's developmental strategies.
Book Synopsis Ghana During the First World War by : Elizabeth Wrangham
Download or read book Ghana During the First World War written by Elizabeth Wrangham and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging study of a previously neglected but pivotal period in the colonial history of the Gold Coast, Ghana During the First World War identifies the lasting economic and political impact of this period and offers a reappraisal of British rule in a typical equatorial protectorate.
Book Synopsis Abina and the Important Men by : Trevor R. Getz
Download or read book Abina and the Important Men written by Trevor R. Getz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an illustrated "graphic history" based on an 1876 court transcript of a West African woman named Abina, who was wrongfully enslaved and took her case to court. The main scenes of the story take place in the courtroom, where Abina strives to convince a series of "important men"--A British judge, two Euro-African attorneys, a wealthy African country "gentleman," and a jury of local leaders --that her rights matter.--Publisher description.
Book Synopsis A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided Into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts by : Willem Bosman
Download or read book A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea, Divided Into the Gold, the Slave, and the Ivory Coasts written by Willem Bosman and published by . This book was released on 1705 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two letters by merchants of the Dutch West India Company; the first twenty are by Willem Bosman, and the last two by David van Nyendael and Jan Snoek. A small part of letter 18 and a substantial portion of letter 19 deals with the slave-trade; also some scattered notices about this subject elsewhere in the text
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast by : Jarvis L. Hargrove
Download or read book The Political Economy of the Interior Gold Coast written by Jarvis L. Hargrove and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work. Studying their transition from a large scale supplier of captives to the transatlantic slave trade to traders in legitimate goods is a critical component that should be analyzed across West Africa. This work highlights the political and economic relationships between the interior Asante state with surrounding African groups and Europeans, chiefly British traders who entered the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Book Synopsis Canadian Graduate Theses 1919-1967 by : W. Donald Wood
Download or read book Canadian Graduate Theses 1919-1967 written by W. Donald Wood and published by Kingston, Ont. : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University. This book was released on 1970 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African History: A Very Short Introduction by : John Parker
Download or read book African History: A Very Short Introduction written by John Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Economic History of Australia by : Simon Ville
Download or read book The Cambridge Economic History of Australia written by Simon Ville and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-08 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's economic history is the story of the transformation of an indigenous economy and a small convict settlement into a nation of nearly 23 million people with advanced economic, social and political structures. It is a history of vast lands with rich, exploitable resources, of adversity in war, and of prosperity and nation building. It is also a history of human behaviour and the institutions created to harness and govern human endeavour. This account provides a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the nation's economic foundations, growth, resilience and future, in an engaging, contemporary narrative. It examines key themes such as the centrality of land and its usage, the role of migrant human capital, the tension between development and the environment, and Australia's interaction with the international economy. Written by a team of eminent economic historians, The Cambridge Economic History of Australia is the definitive study of Australia's economic past and present.
Book Synopsis The Gold Coast Revolution by : George Padmore
Download or read book The Gold Coast Revolution written by George Padmore and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Money, Finance, and Empire, 1790-1960 by : R. F Holland
Download or read book Money, Finance, and Empire, 1790-1960 written by R. F Holland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars have recently begun to pay renewed attention to the economics of empire, focusing in particular on the requirements of metropolitan Britain's economy and on the activities of imperial businesses. Within this broad field, financial questions, not least the subject of investment overseas or the 'export of capital', have long had a prominent place, and have been equally affected by the development of new appraoches. The consensus as to the volume and direction of Britain's overseas investments is being vigorously challenged. Technological advances have encouraged on a greatly enlarged scale the compilation and analysis of information about British investments and shareholdings abroad. The gradual easing of restrictions on business records has increased facilities for the study, especially, of imperial and colonial banking. Work on the financial policies of central governments is revealing much of interest to students of twentieth-century colonial rule and decolonization. This collection of essays brings together a selection of the latest research on these and other themes, and, for comparative purposes, includes examples of recent continental work.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Capitalism by : Larry Neal
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Capitalism written by Larry Neal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism provides a comprehensive account of the evolution of capitalism from its earliest beginnings. Starting with its distant origins in ancient Babylon, successive chapters trace progression up to the 'Promised Land' of capitalism in America. Adopting a wide geographical coverage and comparative perspective, the international team of authors discuss the contributions of Greek, Roman, and Asian civilizations to the development of capitalism, as well as the Chinese, Indian and Arab empires. They determine what features of modern capitalism were present at each time and place, and why the various precursors of capitalism did not survive. Looking at the eventual success of medieval Europe and the examples of city-states in northern Italy and the Low Countries, the authors address how British mercantilism led to European imitations and American successes, and ultimately, how capitalism became global.
Book Synopsis Balme Library Theses by : Balme Library
Download or read book Balme Library Theses written by Balme Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Ghana by : William Ernest Frank Ward
Download or read book A History of Ghana written by William Ernest Frank Ward and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Economic Revolution in British West Africa by : Allan McPhee
Download or read book The Economic Revolution in British West Africa written by Allan McPhee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1926, McPhee's work was the first to establish a framework for understanding the economic development between 1820-1920 in British West Africa.
