HIST 317 — Economic History of West Africa: 1700 to 1890
History · University of Ghana
This course stays at the surface of economic history but offers a new, purely historian‘s view: Historians‘ approaches to the subject, including the ―market‖ and ―Africanist‖ approaches and the neo-Marxist schools. Natural and human resources; technology, Economic activity, interpretations; production and distribution, trade within West Africa, the Trans-Saharan and Trans-Oceanic trade, the social organizations of economic life and the material basis of political power, the organization of labour and of trade, the source of State revenue and of trade.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- HIST 311 — History of Ghana up to 1800
- HIST 313 — History of Africa up to 1500
- HIST 315 — The Black Diaspora
- HIST 319 — Aspects of Early Modern European History
- HIST 321 — Islam and Christianity in Africa
- HIST 323 — Colonial and Modern India Studies
- HIST 326 — History of Africa up to 1800
- HIST 332 — The History of Western Medicine in Ghana
- HIST 334 — Women in History
- HIST 336 — History of Pan-Africanism
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).