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Power and state formation in West Africa : Appolonia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century
- Title
- Power and state formation in West Africa : Appolonia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Pierluigi Valsecchi ; translated by Allan Cameron.
- Author
- Valsecchi, Pierluigi, 1956-
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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- Description
- x, 317 p. : maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This study looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. It mainly focuses on the western extreme of the Gold Coast, the region known as Nzema, which today has been divided between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. In linguistic, cultural, historical, and political terms, Nzema is part of the Akan world, a larger formation of societies sharing many common elements. The book examines the logic behind the manner in which political entities in Nzema were structured territorially, as well as the formation of ruling groups and aspects of their political, economic, and military actions, while placing all these in the wider regional context. The object is to give historical substance to the shift from a politically fragmented situation to the territorially and institutionally unified Kingdom of Appolonia, marked by a considerable concentration of power in the hands of a select few, who controlled the institutions and trade with Europe"--
- Subject
- Note
- A longer version of this book was first published in Italian by Carocci Editore in 2002 under title: I signori di Appolonia.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-292) and index.
- Contents
- History and identity -- The regional landscape -- Politics and trade -- Changes in the second half of the seventeenth century -- Warning signs of a shifting balance -- Big men, imperial dynamics, and local powers -- The new Maanle of Appolonia: development of a network -- The framework of hegemony.
- Call Number
- Sc D 12-483
- ISBN
- 9780230117761 (hardback)
- 0230117767 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2011026992
- OCLC
- 711049291
- Author
- Valsecchi, Pierluigi, 1956-
- Title
- Power and state formation in West Africa : Appolonia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Pierluigi Valsecchi ; translated by Allan Cameron.
- Imprint
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-292) and index.
- Added Author
- Valsecchi, Pierluigi, 1956- Signori di Appolonia.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 12-483