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Author Murillo, Bianca, author.

Title Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana / Bianca Murillo.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New African histories
New African histories series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies -- A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets -- "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain -- "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation -- "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation -- "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers -- Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping malls.
Summary By emphasizing the centrality of human relationships to Ghana's economic past, Murillo introduces a radical rethinking of consumption studies from an Africa-centered perspective. The result is a keen look at colonial capitalism in all of its intricacies, legacies, and contradictions, including its entanglement with gender and race.
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Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Ghana -- History -- 20th century.
Consumption (Economics)
Ghana.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects -- Ghana.
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects.
Consumers -- Ghana -- History -- 20th century.
Consumers.
Ghana -- Commerce -- History -- 20th century.
Commerce.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Murillo, Bianca. Market encounters. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017 9780821422885 (DLC) 2017027990 (OCoLC)982091460
ISBN 9780821446133 electronic book
0821446134 electronic book
9780821422885
082142288X
9780821422892
0821422898
0821446134

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