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024 7 _a10.1163/9789047410232
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035 _a(OCoLC)298788337
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100 1 _aGrischow, Jeff,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aShaping Tradition :
_bCivil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957 /
_cJeff Grischow.
246 3 _aCivil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957
264 1 _aLeiden;
_aBoston :
_bBRILL,
_c2006.
300 _a1 online resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aAfrican Social Studies Series ;
_v14
490 1 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 _aUsing Northern Ghana as a case study, this book challenges the invocation of civil society as a tool for building community in the name of development. Far from equating civil society with community, colonial officials used the doctrine of community against African civil society. For colonial officers, civil society represented the corruption of authentic development, which could be avoided only by protecting traditional peasant communities in the face of economic transformation. The book charts this colonial program, from the creation of "native states" in the early twentieth century to an ambitious agricultural mechanisation scheme in the late 1940s. In its challenge to current writing on civil society, the study offers an important contribution to African history and development studies.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCivil society
_zGhana
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCommunity development
_zGhana
_xHistory
_y20th century.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tShaping Tradition : Civil Society, Community and Development in Colonial Northern Ghana, 1899-1957.
_dLeiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2006
_z9789004152434
_w(OCoLC)71266612
830 0 _aAfrican Social Studies Series ;
_v14.
830 0 _aBrill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047410232
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