The History of Ghana

by Roger S. Gocking

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. After World War II an increasingly more effective nationalist movement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313318948
• ISBN13: 9780313318948
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.5"