Author: Kea, Ray A. Title: Settlements, Trade & Polities in the Seventeenth-Century Gold Coast
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, (1982). orig.cloth. xx,475 pp. 23x15cm,Some page-edge spotting.. Textual maps & tables. Some wear. Some stains to binding. Good. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Gold Coast: A Region & A Social Formation; The Settlement Order: Settlement Systems in the 17th-Century Gold Coast; Urban Networks & Central Places; The Sociopolitical & Military Order: Nobles, Retainers & Subjects: The Social Structure of Dominance & Subdominance; Soldiers & Warfare: The Military Organization; The Commercial Order: Production, Distribution & the Division of Labor; Trade at the Ports: The 'Afahene' & Its Commercial Operations; The Akani Trading Organization; Commerce & Class: The Market, Living Standards, & the Social Distribution of Wealth; Conclusion.
Keywords: African Colonial History, 17th-Century Ghana, West Africa Economy, Political Economics, Akani Historical, Sociology Commerce, Trade Ethnography, Land Settlement, Gold Coast Akan, Economic History
Price: US$ 65.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS007824I