Shadows of empire in West Africa : new perspectives on European fortifications /: new perspectives on European fortifications. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Kwadwo Osei-Tutu, Victoria Ellen Smith, editors.
• Editors: Osei-Tutu, John Kwadwo; Smith, Victoria Ellen
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's European Fortifications -- 2. Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa?: Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic entanglements and national memory -- 3. 'Far from my native land, and far from you': reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the nineteenth century -- 4. Viewed from a Distance: eighteenth-century printed images of fortifications on the coast of West Africa -- 5. Illusions of Grandeur and Protection? Perceptions and (mis)representations of the defensive efficacy of European-built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, 17th-early 19th Centuries -- 6. Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, trade and politics in seventeenth and eighteenth century Gold Coast society -- 7. Fort Metal Cross: commercial epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast -- 8. European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions -- 9. A Theatre of Memory of the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and its Museum -- 10. Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the "Door of No Return": President Barack Obama and family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009 -- 11. Re-Creating Pre-Colonial Forts and Castles: heritage policies and restoration practices in the Gold Coast/Ghana, 1945 to 1970s.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 368 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 966; History; Fortification -- Africa, West; Castles -- Africa, West; HISTORY / Africa / West; Castles; Colonization; Fortification; History -- General; Political Science -- History & Theory; Colonialism & imperialism; Political science & theory; Politics & government; Imperialism; World politics; History -- Africa -- General; African history; Africa, West -- Colonization; Africa, West; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319392820; 3319392824
• Related ISBNs: 9783319392813; 3319392816
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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