Shaping tradition : : civil society, community and development in colonial northern Ghana, 1899-1957 / / by Jeff D. Grischow.
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. For colonial office...
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| Superior document: | African social studies series, v. 14 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African social studies series ;
v. 14. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Table of 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.