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Paul Nugent - Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier

The Lie of the Borderlands Since 1914

Av Paul Nugent

Del i serien Western African Studies

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The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands.The current border between Ghana and Togo is usually regarded as a classically arbitrary European construct, resisted by Ewe irredentism. Paul Nugent challenges this conventional wisdom, contending that whatever the origins of partition, border peoples quickly became knowing and active participants in the shaping of this international boundary.This book straddles the conventional divide between social and political history. It offers a reconstructionof a long-range history of smuggling and a reappraisal of Ewe identity. It should be of interest to African historians, political scientists, anthropologists, comparative borderlands scholars and others concerned with issues of criminality, identity and the state.North America: Ohio U Press
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2002-09-01
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 486 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: Western African Studies
  • Antal sidor: 320
  • Förlag: James Currey
  • ISBN: 9780852554722
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PAUL NUGENT is Professor of Comparative African History (History and Centre of African Studies) at the University of Edinburgh.

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This study...is warmly recommended and should be of particular interest to those concerned with the ins and outs of imaginary or putative nationalisms in Africa. From a comparative perspective, it would be very interesting to see to what extent Nugent's four main conclusions - that boundary lines drawn by the various colonial powers were never simply arbitrary, that those boundary lines created local sets of vested interests favouring the status quo, that the division of a putative ethnic group (the Ewe) was not sufficient to override the forces conspiring towards maintenance of the border and, finally, that contra a particularly well-established orthodoxy, Ewe border communities in both countries have neither been divorced from the state, nor especially resistant to it - have wider currency beyond the Ghana-Togo context.

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