9789004152434 - Shaping Tradition: Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957 de Grischow, Jeff (4 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Trade PB. 8vo. Published by Brill Academic Pub, Leiden, Netherlands. 2006. Xii, 264 pgs. Wrappers lightly worn with some light shelf-wear to the extremities present. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Using Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of native states in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies EB; African Social Studies Series, 14; 6.25 X 0.75 X 9.25 inches; 268 pages.

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Paperback. Condición: Brand New. illustrated edition. 268 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.