Shadows of Empire in West Africa
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Shadows of Empire in West Africa
New Perspectives on European Fortifications
Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo; Smith, Victoria Ellen
Springer International Publishing AG
08/2018
368
Mole
Inglês
9783319818573
15 a 20 dias
511
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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.
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West African History;Forts and Castles in West Africa;Colonial Society in Africa;Cape Coast Castle;William Smith, Thirty different drafts of Guinea;Jean Barbot, Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea;history of women Gold Coast;history of Gold Coast trade;European architecture in Africa;Obama visit to Cape Coast Castle;colonial fortresses on Ghana coast;heritage policies in twentieth-century Ghana;heritage tourism in Africa;African diaspora roots tourism;African museum studies
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.
Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.
West African History;Forts and Castles in West Africa;Colonial Society in Africa;Cape Coast Castle;William Smith, Thirty different drafts of Guinea;Jean Barbot, Description of the Coasts of North and South Guinea;history of women Gold Coast;history of Gold Coast trade;European architecture in Africa;Obama visit to Cape Coast Castle;colonial fortresses on Ghana coast;heritage policies in twentieth-century Ghana;heritage tourism in Africa;African diaspora roots tourism;African museum studies
