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Mediators, contract men, and colonial capital : mechanized gold mining in the Gold Coast Colony, 1879-1909 / Cassandra Mark-Thiesen.
Lippincott Library HD8832 .M37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra, author.
- Series:
- Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gold miners--Recruiting--Ghana--History.
- Gold miners.
- Gold miners--Effect of technological innovations on--Ghana--History.
- Labor supply--Ghana--History.
- Labor supply.
- Industrial relations--Ghana--History.
- Industrial relations.
- Colonies.
- Administration.
- History.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Administration--History.
- Great Britain.
- Ghana--History--To 1957.
- Ghana.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 217 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Prospectors, politicians, and the question of "progress": the first and second gold booms in Wassa
- Labor recruitment in the nineteenth century: the place of practicality
- Disrupted recruitment at the turn of the twentieth century: women, whites, and other labor agents
- Government strategies for assisting the mines
- Labor agents, chiefs and officials, 1905-1909: the incorporation of the northern territories' labor reserve.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781580469180
- 1580469183
- OCLC:
- 1000355978
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