Shadows of Empire in West Africa New Perspectives on European Fortifications /

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 nuan...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Smith, Victoria Ellen (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2018.
Σειρά:African Histories and Modernities
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
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505 0 |a 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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