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Auteur(s) : Valsecchi, Pierluigi (1956-....)
Titre(s) : Power and state formation in West Africa [Texte imprimé] : Appolonia from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century / Pierluigi Valsecchi ; translated by Allan Cameron
Traduction de : I signori di Appolonia
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Description matérielle : x, 317 pages : maps ; 22 cm
Comprend : History and identity ; The regional landscape ; Politics and trade ; Changes in
the second half of the seventeenth century ; Warning signs of a shifting balance
; Big men, imperial dynamics, and local powers ; The new Maanle of Appolonia: development
of a network ; The framework of hegemony.
Note(s) : A longer version of this book was originally published in Italian by Carocci Editore
in 2002 under title: I signori di Appolonia. - Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-292) and index
"This study looks at the political and social history of the Gold Coast in West Africa
from the early 16th century to the second half of the 18th. It mainly focuses on the
western extreme of the Gold Coast, the region known as Nzema, which today has been
divided between Ghana and the Ivory Coast. In linguistic, cultural, historical, and
political terms, Nzema is part of the Akan world, a larger formation of societies
sharing many common elements. The book examines the logic behind the manner in which
political entities in Nzema were structured territorially, as well as the formation
of ruling groups and aspects of their political, economic, and military actions, while
placing all these in the wider regional context. The object is to give historical
substance to the shift from a politically fragmented situation to the territorially
and institutionally unified Kingdom of Appolonia, marked by a considerable concentration
of power in the hands of a select few, who controlled the institutions and trade with
Europe"
Sujet(s) : Nzima (peuple d'Afrique) -- Histoire
Akan (peuple d'Afrique) -- Histoire
Afrique occidentale -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780230117761 (hardback). - ISBN 0230117767 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb437723256
Notice n° :
FRBNF43772325
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