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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Themes in West Africa's history. Athens : Ohio University ; Oxford, England : James Currey ; Accra : Woeli Pub. Services, 2006 (OCoLC)745696019 |
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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: | 0821416405 9780821416402 0821416413 9780821416419 9988626568 9789988626563 0852559968 9780852559963 085255995X 9780852559956 |
| OCLC Number: | 61303495 |
| Description: | xii, 323 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | The Holocene prehistory of West Africa, 10,000-1000 BP / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Ecology & culture in West Africa / James L.A. Webb Jr -- Linguistics & history in West Africa / M.E. Kropp Dakubu -- Oral tradition & perceptions of history from the Manding peoples of West Africa / David C. Conrad -- Slavery & slave trade in West Africa, 1450-1930 / Patrick Manning -- Class, caste & social inequality in West African history / Ismail Rashid -- Religious interactions in pre-twentieth century West Africa / Pashington Obeng -- Poverty in pre-colonial & colonial West Africa : perception, causes & alleviation / Ogbu U. Kalu -- Disease in West African history / Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong -- Urbanization in colonial & post-colonial West Africa / Andreas Eckert -- Commodities, Mercedes-Benz & structural adjustment : an episode in West African economic history / Celestin Monga -- Ethnicity, conflict & the state in contemporary West Africa / Cyril K. Daddieh -- Pentecostalism, Islam & culture : new religious movements in West Africa / Brian Larkin & Birgit Meyer. |
| Series Title: | Western African studies. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. |
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