The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, "Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier" challenges the conventional wisdom that the current border is an arbitrary European construct, resisted by Ewe irredentism. Paul Nugent contends that whatever the origins of partition, border peoples quickly became knowing and active participants in the shaping of this international boundary. The study itself straddles the conventional divide between social and political history and offers a reconstruction of a long-range history of smuggling and a...
The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, "Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier" challenges the c...
The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, "Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier" challenges the conventional wisdom that the current border is an arbitrary European construct, resisted by Ewe irredentism. Paul Nugent contends that whatever the origins of partition, border peoples quickly became knowing and active participants in the shaping of this international boundary. The study itself straddles the conventional divide between social and political history and offers a reconstruction of a long-range history of smuggling and a...
The first integrated history of the Ghana-Togo borderlands, "Smugglers, Secessionists, and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier" challenges the c...
A study of a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. It shows how chiefly resistance to their destruction forced the government to seek control over rural areas by redefining chieftaincy. It should provide a context for understanding Ghana's political topography. North America: Ohio U Press
A study of a radical nationalist government's attempts to destroy chieftaincy in Ghana. It shows how chiefly resistance to their destruction forced th...
