ISBN:
9783319392820
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 368 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
African Histories and Modernities Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Shadows of empire in West Africa
DDC:
900
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Europeans--Africa, West--History--Congresses
;
Befestigung
;
Festung
;
Geschichte
;
Grenzbefestigung
;
Kolonialismus
;
Stadtbefestigung
;
Europeans ; Africa, West ; History ; Congresses
;
Electronic books
;
Westafrika
;
Konferenzschrift 2012
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift 2012
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Interpreting West Africa's Forts and Castles -- Forts and Castles Research: Perspectives and Sources -- This Collection: Thematic, Theoretical and Empirical Common Grounds -- Concluding Suggestions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Grossfriedrichsburg, the First German Colony in Africa? Brandenburg-Prussia, Atlantic Entanglements and National Memory -- The Foundation of Grossfriedrichsburg: A Small Niche for a Weak Newcomer (1681-1683) -- Pokesu: A Hub of Atlantic Entanglements (Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries) -- The Invention of a Tradition: Grossfriedrichsburg as "The First German Colony" (Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries) -- Postcolonial Echoes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3 'Far from My Native Land, and Far from You': Reimagining the British at Cape Coast Castle in the Nineteenth Century -- Introduction -- Narratives of Heroics and Honour -- Memories of Abolition -- Myths of Romantic Possibility -- The Letters of Letty Landon -- Conclusion: More Real Than Truth -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Viewed from a Distance: Eighteenth-Century Images of Fortifications on the Coast of West Africa -- Introduction -- An Englishman, a Frenchman and a Dutchman… -- Critical Distance -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5 Illusions of Grandeur and Protection: Perceptions and (Mis)Representations of the Defensive Efficacy of European-Built Fortifications on the Gold Coast, Seventeenth-Early Nineteenth Centuries -- Introduction -- This Study: Theme and Background -- Historical and Spatial Setting: Fortifications, Spheres of Interest and Security -- Illusions of Grandeur and Power -- Treaties and Architectures of Protection -- Maximising Profit: Intermediaries in the Militarised Economic Space
Abstract:
Akan Militarism and Expansionism: Motives Nature and Expanse -- African Expectations of Protection and European Self-Preservation in the East -- Asante, the Fante and the Europeans -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Female Agency in a Cultural Confluence: Women, Trade and Politics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast -- Introduction -- Literature on Gender, Politics and Economic Activities -- Studies on the Gold Coast -- Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast -- Gold Coast Society and Occupational Structure -- Women, Trade and Politics on the Gold Coast -- Influence of African-European Social Relations on Women's Trading Activity -- Women, Political Influence and Trade -- Women and Ancillary Entrepreneurial Businesses -- African-European Politics: Involvement of Gold Coast Women -- An Exception to the Rule -- Queen Aqua (Aguaaba) Brafo and the English-Pawn in African-European Politics -- Queen of Agona and Anglo-Dutch Rivalry -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7 Fort Metal Cross: Commercial Epicentre of the British on the Gold Coast -- Introduction -- A Brief Historical Antecedent of Fort Metal Cross -- The Archaeological Investigation -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8 European Fortifications in West Africa as Architectural Containers and Oppressive Contraptions -- Territoriality, Boundaries and Filters: The Power of Architectural Design in Christiansborg, Osu -- A Brief Architectural History of Christiansborg -- Physical Expressions of the Architectural Design of Christainsborg Castle -- Physical Expression of "Territoriality" in Christiansborg's Architectural Design -- Conclusion -- Architecture of Oppression: Uses of the Dungeons in the Forts and Castles of Ghana -- Approach and Expected Outcome -- A Snapshot of the "Passage to the New World
Abstract:
Architectural Design and Spatial Exegesis of the Castles and Forts in Ghana -- Spatial Nomenclature: The Semantics of Horror in the Castles and Forts -- Spaces of Horror: Anthropometrics of the Dungeons -- Spaces of Horror: The Need for Air and Light in the Dungeons -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9 A Theatre of Memory for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade: Cape Coast Castle and Its Museum -- Cape Coast Castle and Its Museum -- A Performative Memoryscape -- Enactment Performances -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 10 Diplomacy, Identity and Appropriation of the "Door of no Return". President Barack Obama and Family in Ghana and the Cape Coast Castle, 2009 -- Introduction -- Meanings of Obama's Presidency to Africa: Optimism, Great Expectations and Realpolitik -- An "Extraordinary Experience": Castles, Dungeons, Heritage and Tourism -- The "Door of no Return": Invisibilities, Identities and Appropriation? -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 11 Recreating Pre-colonial Forts and Castles: Heritage Policies and Restoration Practices in the Gold CoastGhana, 1945 to 1970s -- The Establishment of Colonial Heritage Policies and Restoration Practices -- Heritage Management After Independence -- Tourism and Heritage Management in Ghana -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
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