HIST 328 — Economic History of West Africa: 1890 to 1960
History · University of Ghana
The course will deal with Interpretations of colonialism and imperialism, the economic aspects of partition: the respective roles of economic and non-economic, and of peripheral and metropolitan influences, the early colonial economy, 1890-1930; the rule of the colonial administration and of foreign capital, causes and mechanics of the cash-crop ―revolution‖, including the rule of indigenous enterprise, change and continuity in the social organization of colonial life; rural indebtedness, the expansion of migrant wage labour, and the position of women slaves; chiefs, traders and educated elites, the economic context of political independence; depression and conflict in colonial economy, 1930-40, economic decolonisation, or transition to neo-colonialism, 1940-60, and the expansion of government intervention, 1910-60.
- Credits
- 3
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- HIST 214 — Africa in the International Setting in the 20th century
- HIST 322 — Ghana in the 19th and the 20th Centuries
- HIST 324 — History of Europe, 1798 - 1945
- HIST 431 — History of Modern China and Japan, ca. 1800 - 1900
- HIST 434 — History of Modern China and Japan since 1900
- HIST 435 — Aspects of World History: 1914-1945
- HIST 436 — History Modern Russia & U.S.A: 1860-1939
- HIST 438 — Aspects of World History since 1945
- HIST 111 — Earliest Civilizations
- HIST 112 — Selected Topics in World History
- HIST 211 — Historiography
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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).