Title: Smugglers, secessionists & loyal citizens on the Ghana-Toga frontier
First published: 2002
Description: "This is the first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands. The result of two colonial partitions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the current border is usually regarded as a classically arbitrary European construct, resisted by Ewe irredentism. This book challenges this conventional wisdom, contending that whatever the origins of partition, border peoples quickly became knowing and active participants in the shaping of this international boundary." "Based on extensive archival and field research over nearly two decades, this book straddles the conventional divide between social and political history. It offers a reconstruction of a long-range history of smuggling and a reappraisal of Ewe identity in the light of recent debates. It will be of interest to African historians, political scientists, anthropologists, comparative borderlands scholars and others concerned with issues of criminality, identity and the state."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: History, Boundaries, Smuggling, Ewe (African people), Togo, history, Ghana, history, Togo, Ghana, Borderlands, West african history, Literary collections, Ewe (african people)--history, Ewe (african people)--history--20th century, Smuggling--history, Smuggling--togo--history--20th century, Smuggling--ghana--history--20th century, Dt582.45.e93 n84 2002, 966.7/03
Places: Ghana, Togo
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: DT582.45.E93 N84 2002