03506nam 22008055 450 991097387260332120240311132400.0978134949652513494965299781137448583113744858X10.1057/9781137448583(CKB)3710000000374103(EBL)1913584(SSID)ssj0001405041(PQKBManifestationID)11799272(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001405041(PQKBWorkID)11387510(PQKB)11708793(MiAaPQ)EBC1913584(DE-He213)978-1-137-44858-3(Perlego)3488673(EXLCZ)99371000000037410320151130d2014 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBuilding the Ghanaian Nation-State Kwame Nkrumah's Symbolic Nationalism /by H. Fuller1st ed. 2014.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2014.1 online resource (297 p.)African Histories and Modernities,2634-5781Description based upon print version of record.9781322577838 1322577838 9781137448569 1137448563 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword: Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-His Symbolic Nationalism and Nation Building; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Timeline of Important Dates in the Life of Kwame Nkrumah; Ghanaian Premiers, 1951-Present; INTRODUCTION The Symbolism of Ghanaian Nationalism; Chapter 1 Banal Symbols of the New Nation-State; Chapter 2 Philatelic Nationalism; Chapter 3 Economic Nationalism; Chapter 4 Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor; Chapter 6 Monumental Nationalism; Chapter 7 Pan-African Nationalism; Chapter 8 The Downfall of Kwame NkrumahChapter 9 The Death and Symbolic "Resurrection" of Kwame NkrumahChapter 10 From "Redeemer" to Redeemed?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; IndexGhana has always held a position of primacy in the African political and historical imagination, due in no small part to the indelible impression left president Kwame Nkrumah. This study examines the symbolic strategies he used to construct the Ghanaian state through currency, stamps, museums, flags, and other public icons.African Histories and Modernities,2634-5781AfricaPolitics and governmentPolitical sociologyAfricaHistoryImperialismPolitical scienceAfrican PoliticsPolitical SociologyAfrican HistoryImperialism and ColonialismPolitical ScienceAfricaPolitics and government.Political sociology.AfricaHistory.Imperialism.Political science.African Politics.Political Sociology.African History.Imperialism and Colonialism.Political Science.966.7051Fuller Hauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1792520BOOK9910973872603321Building the Ghanaian Nation-State4331184UNINA