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Author Kea, Ray A.

Title A cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century : the Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade. Book 1 / Ray A. Kea ; with a foreword by Ivor Wilks.

Publication Info. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Part One: Texts. Chapter 1: Hans Lykke of Osu. Hermeneutics. A death-wish. Writing Hans Lykke. History continues. Noete/Note Doku. Klama and Kpele hermeneutics. Dominion. The Akwamu factor. The lumo and the company. The lumo as ma?nyo. Akwamu politics. Rebellion. A counter-narrative. Rebellion. Life and death. The idea of Hans Lykke -- Chapter 2. History, commerce, and texts. Texts and commerce. The ordering of things. Texts and Gold Coast history. Labor. Work as a condition of life. A mason's imagination. History as critique. The question of the present. Identifying the authors. An historical imagination. Imaginaries. The imaginative dimension in history. Counter-factual yearning -- Part Two: Service. Chapter 3: The company's servant: Sodsha Duomoro. Social and trading capital. Biography and Atlantic slaving. A cognitive and social order. A politics of location. The son of a famous man. Household property. Working for the company. Cultural and symbolic capital. Values and meanings. The aesthetics and metaphysics of power. The cultural domain of Coutymer. The politics of property. A life in the eighteenth century -- Part Three: Resistance. Chapter 4: Subalterns and social struggle. Rethinking what we know. "History to the defeated". Social transcripts. Places of sanctuary. Subalterns. "Plundering on the general road". Unmastered men. "His master should never get another day's work out of him". Social inversion. Liminality and history. Agency and the terrain of social struggle -- Chapter 5: A rebel and an abolitionist. "Giving import to lives on the margins". Atlantic slaving and historical agency. Kwasi the blacksmith and rebel. Mutiny in Christiansborg castle. Plotting rebellion on St. Croix. A life of defeat. ''Life is fury''. Life in Edwumako-Asene. Enslavement. Confronting history in the idea of abolition. The modernity of the unimaginable.
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Subject Ghana -- Social conditions.
Ghana.
Social conditions.
Ghana -- Commerce -- History.
Commerce.
History.
Slavery -- Ghana -- History.
Slavery.
Slave trade -- Ghana -- History.
Slave trade.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Gold Coast in the age of trans-Atlantic slave trade
Other Form: Print version: Kea, Ray A. Cultural and social history of Ghana from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2012 9780773439108 (DLC) 2011025530 (OCoLC)731913398
ISBN 9780773418844 (electronic book)
0773418849 (electronic book)
9780773439108 (set ; hardcover)
0773439102 (set ; hardcover)