Building the Ghanaian Nation-State [[electronic resource] ] : Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism / / by H. Fuller
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Fuller H
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| Titolo: |
Building the Ghanaian Nation-State [[electronic resource] ] : Kwame Nkrumah’s Symbolic Nationalism / / by H. Fuller
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2014 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. 2014. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 966.7051 |
| Soggetto topico: | Africa—Politics and government |
| Political sociology | |
| Africa—History | |
| Imperialism | |
| Political science | |
| African Politics | |
| Political Sociology | |
| African History | |
| Imperialism and Colonialism | |
| Political Science | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Ghana Politics and government 1957-1979 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 Nkrumah |
| Chapter 9 The Death and Symbolic "Resurrection" of Kwame NkrumahChapter 10 From "Redeemer" to Redeemed?; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Ghana 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Building the Ghanaian Nation-State |
| ISBN: | 1-349-49652-9 |
| 1-137-44858-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910796904003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
African Histories and Modernities, . 2634-5773