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Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications 1st Edition

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Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications 1st Edition John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu Digital Instant Download

Author(s): John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Victoria Ellen Smith (eds.)

ISBN(s): 9783319392813, 9783319392820, 3319392816, 3319392824

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 6.44 MB

Year: 2018

Language: English

SKU: EB-6788210 Categories: Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology, Society Tags: European Fortifications, John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Victoria Ellen Smith, West Africa

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Shadows of Empire in West Africa: New Perspectives on European Fortifications 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319392813,9783319392820,3319392816,3319392824

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ISBN 10: 3319392824
ISBN 13: 9783319392820
Author: John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu , Victoria Ellen Smith

These essays reexamine European forts in West Africa as hubs where different peoples interacted, negotiated and transformed each other socially, politically, culturally, and economically. This collection brings together scholars of history, archaeology, cultural studies, and others to present a nuanced image of fortifications, showing that over time the functions and impacts of the buildings changed as the motives, missions, allegiances, and power dynamics in the region also changed. Focusing on the fortifications of Ghana, the authors discuss how these structures may be interpreted as connecting Ghanaian and West African histories to a multitude of global histories. They also enable greater understanding of the fortifications’ contemporary use as heritage sites, where the Afro-European experience is narrated through guided tours and museums.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Interpreting West Africa’s Forts and Castles

2. Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa? Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic Entanglements and National Memory

3. ‘Far from My Native Land, and Far from You’: Reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the Nineteenth Century

4. Viewed from a Distance: Eighteenth-Century Images of Fortifications on the Coast of West Africa

5. Illusions of Grandeur and Protection: Perceptions and (Mis)Representations of the Defensive Efficacy of European-Built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, Seventeenth–Early Nineteenth Centuries

6. Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, Trade and Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast

7. Fort Metal Cross: Commercial Epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast

8. European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions

9. A Theatre of Memory for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and Its Museum

10. Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the “Door of no Return”. President Barack Obama and Family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009

11. Recreating Pre-colonial Forts and Castles: Heritage Policies and Restoration Practices in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1945 to 1970s

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