Shadows of Empire in West Africa
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-39281-3 (ISBN)
John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu is Associate Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana. Victoria Ellen Smith is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Ghana. She is Founding Curator of the Adu Boahen Memorial Library and Archive.
1. Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's European Fortifications.- 2. Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa?: Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic entanglements and national memory.- 3. 'Far from my native land, and far from you': reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the nineteenth century.- 4. Viewed from a Distance: eighteenth-century printed images of fortifications on the coast of West Africa.- 5. Illusions of Grandeur and Protection? Perceptions and (mis)representations of the defensive efficacy of European-built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, 17th-early 19th Centuries.- 6. Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, trade and politics in seventeenth and eighteenth century Gold Coast society.- 7. Fort Metal Cross: commercial epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast.- 8. European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions.- 9. A Theatre of Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and its Museum.- 10. Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the "Door of No Return": President Barack Obama and family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009.- 11. Re-Creating Pre-Colonial Forts and Castles: heritage policies and restoration practices in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1945 to 1970s.
Erscheinungsdatum | 29.09.2017 |
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Reihe/Serie | African Histories and Modernities |
Zusatzinfo | XXII, 368 p. 17 illus., 4 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
Schlagworte | African diaspora roots tourism • African History • African museum studies • African politics • Atlantic World • Cape Coast Castle • colonial fortresses on Ghana coast • Colonial Society in Africa • European architecture in Africa • Forts and Castles in West Africa • heritage policies in twentieth-century Ghana • heritage tourism in Africa • History • history of Gold Coast trade • history of women Gold Coast • Imperialism and Colonialism • Jean Barbot, Description of the Coasts of North an • Jean Barbot, Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea • Obama visit to Cape Coast Castle • Political History • Slave Trade and Slavery • West African History • William Smith, Thirty different drafts of Guinea |
ISBN-10 | 3-319-39281-6 / 3319392816 |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-39281-3 / 9783319392813 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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