Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 524 g
British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast
Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 524 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-820848-8
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The Business of Decolonization serves to deepen our understanding of the end of the British empire, too often approached as if it was a process shaped and experienced exclusively by nationalist and imperial politicians and policy-makers. It explores British companies' experience of, and involvement in, developments leading to the transfer of power in Ghana, the former colony of the Gold Coast. The book demonstrates that businessmen developed strategies to cope with political change, reveals the extent of their involvement in nationalist politics, and highlights the contrasting responses of different companies to political and constitutional developments in the colony. Drawing on an extensive range of company, business association, personal, and official papers, the book focuses primarily on company activity. However, it also investigates relations between British firms and the colonial state on the eve of Ghanaian independence, and examines the place of British business interests in British policy.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- British business and the Gold Coast colonial state on the eve of decolonization
- Nationalism and British business
- Strategies for decolonization: constitutional change and the campaign for business representation
- Strategies for decolonization: the mercantile and the service sectors
- Strategies for decolonization: the mining companies
- British business in British strategies for decolonization in the Gold Coast
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
