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Between the sea & the lagoon : an eco-social history of the Anlo of southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to recent times
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Between the sea & the lagoon : an eco-social history of the Anlo of southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to recent times

Author: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press ; Oxford [England] : James Currey, 2001.
Series: Western African studies
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong
ISBN: 0821414089 9780821414088 0821414097 9780821414095 0852557760 9780852557761 0852557779 9780852557778
OCLC Number: 48003298
Description: xii, 244 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Migration, Topography -- & Early Settlements in the Keta Lagoon Basin -- 2 -- Abolition, British Influence -- & Smuggling in the Anlo Lowlands up to c. 1890 -- 3 -- Commercial Prosperity, Urbanization -- & Social Life in Early Colonial Keta -- 4 -- Unstable Ecology -- Belief, Knowledge & the Enigma of Sea Erosion -- in Colonial Keta, 1907-32 -- 5 -- The Search for Space -- land Reclamation, Migrant Fishing, Shallot Cultivation -- & Illicit Liquor Distillation in Anlo, c. 1930-57 -- 6 -- Harbours & Dams -- Economic Development & i Environmental Change -- in the Lower Volta Basin, 1957 to the Present -- 7 -- Coastal Erosion, Political Ecology -- & the Discourse of Environmental Citizenship -- in Twentieth century Anlo -- 8 -- Living with the Sea -- Society & Culture in Contemporary Anlo -- Bibliography -- Index -- Maps, Figures & Photographs.
Series Title: Western African studies
Other Titles: Between the sea and the lagoon
Responsibility: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong.
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