The history of Ghana
Title:
The history of Ghana
Author:
Gocking, Roger.
ISBN:
9780313061301
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxxiii, 331 p., [11] p. of plates) : ill., maps.
Series:
The Greenwood histories of the modern nations,
Greenwood histories of the modern nations.
Contents:
Orthography. -- Currency. -- Timeline of historical events. -- Introduction: Ghana in perspective. -- Precolonial states and societies. -- Colonial rule. -- Politics and protest in the model colony. -- The model colony at war and the aftermath. -- The Convention People's Party and the road to independence. -- Independence: The Nkrumah years. -- From military coup to Second Republic. -- Return of the soldiers. -- The Third Republic and the PNDC. -- The first NDC administration: 1993-97. -- The second NDC administration: 1997-2001. -- The NPP in power: 2001-4. -- Epilogue: Moving forward, looking backward. -- Notable people in the history of Ghana.
Abstract:
Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britain at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement challenged British rule, and in 1957 Ghana became independent. Independence brought its own challenges the most important of which was the inability.
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