The Business of Decolonization
British Business Strategies in the Gold Coast
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 3 August 2000
- ISBN 9780198208488
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages276 pages
- Size 224x144x21 mm
- Weight 455 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map 0
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Short description:
The Business of Decolonization provides a fresh perspective on the end of the British Empire in Africa. It examines the transfer of power in the Gold Coast (Ghana) from the viewpoint of British companies and businessmen, investigating their involvement in nationalist politics and their place in British imperial policy during decolonization.
MoreLong description:
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.
The author's comprehensive and judicious use of source material makes this study a model for future scholars of decolonization
Table of Contents:
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
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