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1 online resource (383 pages) |
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African Histories and Modernities |
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African histories and modernities.
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| Contents |
Preface; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's Forts and Castles ; Forts and Castles Research: Perspectives and Sources; This Collection: Thematic, Theoretical and Empirical Common Grounds; Concluding Suggestions; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa? Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic Entanglements and National Memory ; The Foundation of Grossfriedrichsburg: A Small Niche for a Weak Newcomer (1681-1683) |
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Pokesu: A Hub of Atlantic Entanglements (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries)The Invention of a Tradition: Grossfriedrichsburg as "The First German Colony" (Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries); Postcolonial Echoes; Bibliography; Chapter 3 'Far from My Native Land, and Far from You': Reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the Nineteenth Century ; Introduction; Narratives of Heroics and Honour; Memories of Abolition; Myths of Romantic Possibility; The Letters of Letty Landon; Conclusion: More Real Than Truth; Bibliography |
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Chapter 4 Viewed from a Distance: Eighteenth-Century Images of Fortifications on the Coast of West Africa Introduction; An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Dutchman ... ; Critical Distance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 5 Illusions of Grandeur and Protection: Perceptions and (Mis)Representations of the Defensive Efficacy of European-Built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, Seventeenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries ; Introduction; This Study: Theme and Background; Historical and Spatial Setting: Fortifications, Spheres of Interest and Security; Illusions of Grandeur and Power |
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Treaties and Architectures of ProtectionMaximising Profit: Intermediaries in the Militarised Economic Space; Akan Militarism and Expansionism: Motives Nature and Expanse; African Expectations of Protection and European Self-Preservation in the East; Asante, the Fante and the Europeans; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, Trade and Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast ; Introduction; Literature on Gender, Politics and Economic Activities; Studies on the Gold Coast; Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast |
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Gold Coast Society and Occupational StructureWomen, Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast; Influence of African-European Social Relations on Women's Trading Activity; Women, Political Influence and Trade; Women and Ancillary Entrepreneurial Businesses; African-European Politics: Involvement of Gold Coast Women; An Exception to the Rule; Queen Aqua (Aguaaba) Brafo and the English-Pawn in African-European Politics; Queen of Agona and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry; Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 7 Fort Metal Cross: Commercial Epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast ; Introduction |
| Summary |
These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buildings changed as the motives, missions, allegiances, and power dynamics in the region also changed. Focusing on the fortifications of Ghana, the authors discuss how these structures may be interpreted as connecting Ghanaian and West African histories to a multitude of global histories |
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A Brief Historical Antecedent of Fort Metal Cross |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Europeans -- Africa, West -- History -- Congresses
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Europeans
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West Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Smith, Victoria Ellen
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| ISBN |
9783319392820 |
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3319392824 |
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