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Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications
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Series: African Histories and Modernities
African HistoryGeneral Political Science
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ISBN10: 3319392816
ISBN13: 9783319392813
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 22 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
ISBN13: 9783319392813
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Sep 22 2017
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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
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
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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