| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
African history ; volume 7 |
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African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 7.
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| Contents |
Introduction / John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu -- Gold Coast forts and castles: key themes and perspectives / Jarle Simensen -- 'Heaven is high above, and Europe is far away', so Christiansborg prevails / Selena Axelrod Winsnes -- 'Creative and expedient misunderstandings': Elmina-Dutch relations in the 19th century / Larry Yarak -- Wax prints in West Africa: unravelling the myth of Dutch colonial soldiers as cultural brokers / Ineke van Kessel -- William's Fort: the English fort at Ouidah, 1680s-1960s / Robin Law -- The Danish Guinea Coast forts, Denmark's abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and African colonial policy, 1788-1850 / Daniel Hopkins -- Political relations between Osu and Christiansborg, 1803-1826 / Ole Justesen -- Cosmopolitan conundrums: impacts of trade fortresses on the Ga space, 1450-1870 / John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu and Hermann W. von Hesse -- Forts and castles in the colonial period: uses and understandings of the pre-colonial fortifications / Jon Olav Hove |
| Summary |
Long regarded as disturbing remnants of the Atlantic slave trade, the European forts and castles of West Africa have attained iconic positions as universally significant historical monuments and world heritage tourist destinations. This volume of original contributions by leading Africanists presents extensive new historical views of the forts in Ghana and Benin, providing both impetus and a scholarly basis for further research and fresh debate about their historical and geographical contexts; their role in the slave trade; the economic and political connections, centred on the forts, between the Europeans and local African polities; and their place in variously focused heritage studies and endeavours. Contributors are Hermann W. von Hesse, Daniel Hopkins, Jon Olav Hove, Ole Justesen, Ineke van Kessel, Robin Law, John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Jarle Simensen, Selena Axelrod Winsnes†, Larry Yarak |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2019) |
| Subject |
Fortification -- Social aspects -- Ghana -- History
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Fortification -- Social aspects -- Benin -- History
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Slave trade -- Ghana -- History
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Slave trade -- Benin -- History
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Benin.
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Ghana.
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fortifications.
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slave trade.
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colonial policy.
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international relations.
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colonial period.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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Colonial influence
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Slave trade
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Ghana -- Colonial influence
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Benin -- Colonial influence
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Benin
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Ghana
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018043701 |
| ISBN |
9789004380172 |
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9004380175 |
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