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The business of decolonization : British business strategies in the Gold Coast / Sarah Stockwell.
LIBRA JV246 .S76 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stockwell, S. E.
- Series:
- Oxford historical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Decolonization--Ghana.
- Decolonization.
- Ghana.
- Ghana--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Great Britain--Commerce--Ghana.
- Great Britain.
- Commerce.
- Ghana--Commerce--Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--20th century.
- Colonies.
- Administration.
- History.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Summary:
- The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement in nationalist politics and their place in British imperial policy during decolonization.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- British business and the Gold Coast
- colonial state on the eve of decolonization
- Nationalism and British business
- Strategies for decolonization: constitution change and the campaign for business representation
- Strategies for decolonization: the mercantile and service sectors
- Strategies for decolonization: the mining companies
- British business in British strategies for decolonization in the Gold Coast.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [238]-253) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198208480
- OCLC:
- 43095937
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