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Shaping tradition : civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 / by Jeff D. Grischow.

Title
Shaping tradition : civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 / by Jeff D. Grischow.
Author
Grischow, Jeff D. (Jeff Douglas), 1965-
Publication
Leiden ; Boston [Mass.] : Brill, 2006.

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Description
xii, 264 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"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."--Jacket.
Series Statement
African social studies series, 1568-1203 ; v. 14
Uniform Title
African social studies series v. 14.
Alternative Title
  • Civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957.
  • Civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957
Subject
  • Geschichte 1899-1957
  • 1900 - 1999
  • Civil society > Ghana > History > 20th century
  • Community development > Ghana > History > 20th century
  • Burgermaatschappij
  • Politieke ontwikkeling
  • Ghana > Economic conditions > 20th century
  • Ghana
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 -- From developing the estates to preserving the peasantry: development in the northern territories, 1895-1919 -- Corruptions of development and the "steep slope of civilisation", 1919-1933 -- Developing community: land, native administration and direct taxation, 1928-1936 -- Overpopulation, depopulation and the loss of productive power: development in the Zuarungu and Lawra-Tumu districts, 1935-44 -- Questioning mixed farming, tsetse eradication and indirect rule, 1940-1949 -- Land planning, local government and party politics, 1940-1957 -- Mechanised agriculture and community development, 1948-1957.
ISBN
  • 9004152431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9789004152434 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006050920
OCLC
  • 71266612
  • SCSB-11582184
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library