Imperialism, economic development and social change in West Africa
By: Raymond E. Dumett
Series: African world series; Carolina Academic Press African world series
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Durham, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9781594609763
Subjects: History; Economic conditions; Colonies; Administration; Social change
Notes: Previously published articles.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rubber trade of the Gold Coast and Asante in the nineteenth century : African innovation and market responsiveness [1971] --; title: Tropical forests and West African enterprise : the history of the Ghana timber industry [2002] -- The work of slaves in the Akan and Adangme regions of Ghana in the nineteenth century [2010] -- Gold mining and the state in the Akan region in the pre-colonial period : with a critique of the Terray hypothesis [1979] -- Pre-colonial gold mining in Wassa : innovation, socialization, linkages to the economy and to the state [1987] -- Traditional slavery in the Akan region in the nineteenth century [1990] -- Britain and the suppression of slavery in the Gold Coast, Asante, and the northern territories / Raymond Dumett and Marion Johnson [1987] --; title: The social impact of the European liquor trade on the Akan of Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante), 1875-1910 [1974] --; title: The Nzemans of southwestern Ghana : gold miners, rubber traders, loggers and entrepreneurs [2003] --; title: John Sarbah, the elder, and African mercantile entrepreneurship in the Gold Coast [1973] --; title: African merchants of the Gold Coast, 1860-1905 [1983] --; title: Pressure groups, bureaucracy and the decision-making process : slavery abolition and colonial expansion on the Gold Coast, 1874 [1981] --; title: Joseph Chamberlain, imperial finance and railway policy in British West Africa in the late nineteenth century [1975] --; title: Anglo-French commercial rivalries, African agency and imperialism on the Gold Coast/Ivory Coast frontier, 1880-1904 [2011] --; title: British imperial transport management : the Gold Coast Sekondi-Kumase railway, 1903-1911 [2006] --; title: Edwin Cade and Frederick Gordon : British imperialism and the foundations of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, West Africa [2009] --; title: Obstacles to government-assisted development in West Africa : cotton-growing experimentation in Ghana in the early twentieth century [1975] --; title: The campaign against malaria and the expansion of scientific medical and sanitary services in British West Africa, 1898-1910 [1968] --; title: The gold mining centres of Tarkwa and Obuasi, Ghana : colonial administration and social change at company towns in an African setting [1990] --; title: Africa's strategic minerals during the Second World War [1985].