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Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana / Bianca Murillo

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: New African historiesPublisher: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017Description: Online RessourceISBN:
  • 9780821446133
  • 0821446134
  • 9780821422885
  • 082142288X
  • 9780821422892
  • 0821422898
  • 0821446134
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 082142288X | 0821422898 | 0821446134. | 9780821422885 | 9780821422892 | 9780821446133. | Erscheint auch als: No title Druck-Ausgabe | Print version: Market encounters. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017DDC classification:
  • 381.309667
LOC classification:
  • HC1060.Z9
Online resources: Summary: By emphasizing the centrality of human relationships to Ghana's economic past, Murillo introduces a radical rethinking of consumption studies from an Africa-centered perspective. The result is a keen look at colonial capitalism in all of its intricacies, legacies, and contradictions, including its entanglement with gender and raceSummary: Introduction: Consuming histories and creating economies -- A door "wide open" imagining Gold Coast markets -- "We cannot afford to be fooled." African intermediaries on shifting commercial terrain -- "In time for independence." Kingsway Department Store, modernity, and the new nation -- "Shop window on the world." Ghana's first international trade fair and the politics of wealth and accumulation -- "Power to the people." Militarization of the market and the war against profiteers -- Afterword: From structural adjustment to shopping mallsPPN: PPN: 1007564792Package identifier: Produktsigel: GBV-4-HistColl | ZDB-4-EBA | ZDB-4-NLEBK | ZDB-4-EBU
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