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What does it mean to write a “national history”? What does it mean to write a national history of Ghana spanning a so-called modern era largely defined by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? Neither of these concepts as commonly defined in the West--neither the nation nor the modern era--sits comfortably on Ghana's historical shoulders.

Here renowned history scholar Jeffrey Ahlman shows that both of these concepts, as well as the very notions of the “Gold Coaster” or the “Ghanaian,” are moving targets. All are deployed strategically for some and, at times, just as strategically against others as those living in what eventually becomes Ghana seek to make their way through the changing realities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Foregrounding the sometimes overlapping, sometimes divergent, and sometimes contradictory nature of Ghanaian cultural origin stories through discussions of marriage, race, and dress; of cocoa as a cultural system; of the cultural politics of chieftaincy; and of other contemporary markers of Ghanaian identity, Ghana: A Political and Social History distills decades of work by scholars—Ghanaian and non-Ghanaian alike. Putting such work in conversation with a wide array of archival, oral, journalistic, and governmental sources both colonial and postcolonial, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Ghanaian history while providing fresh insights into the limitations of those histories. (Verlagstext)

 

Inhaltsverzeichnis:

 

List of Illustrations | ix

Preface | x

Acknowledgments | xii

List of Abbreviations | xiv

 

Preface

Part I

Introduction: Belonging and Nation in Modern Ghana

Chapter 1. Making the Gold Coast: The Gold Coast to the Twentieth Century

Chapter 2. Colonial Networks: Making Nation and State in the Gold Coast

Chapter 3. Cocoa Futures: State, Society, and Commodity Production in the Gold Coast 106

Chapter 4. Conditions of Protest: War, Crises, and the Politics of Postwar Agitation 142

Chapter 5. States of Transition: Nation and the Politics of Independence in a Decolonizing Ghana

 

Part II

Chapter 6. The Development Dilemma: Decolonization and Debt during Ghana's Sixties

Chapter 7. The Politics of Precarity: Dependence and Development during Ghana's Seventies

Chapter 8. Sites of Upheaval: The Rawlings Revolution and the Coming Neoliberal Age

Conclusion: The Contingent Futures of Ghana's Fourth Republic

 

Notes | 176

Bibliography | 223

Index | 243