A History of Ghana

W.E.F. Ward

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781000854855
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Historia
• Subtopic: Historia del mundo

A History of Ghana (1958) uses both European archives and considerable research among African traditional histories to examine the history of the Gold Coast and Ghana. The African histories are particularly important, as many village traditions, and more so those of larger towns, have traditions that date back hundreds of years, and whose accuracy can be tallied with those of their neighbours. Accounts from Western sources do not shy away from detailing British mistakes in government, and the resulting book is an even-handed history with much under-read research direct from African sources.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright Page
• Preface to the First Edition
• Preface to the Second Edition
• Authorities
• A Note on Gold Coast Place Names
• Table of Contents
• Maps
• Illustrations
• I. The Face of the Land
• II. Population and Pre-History
• III. Before the Coining of the Portuguese
• IV. Early European Voyages to the Gold Coast
• V. The Europeans on the Gold Coast during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• VI. The Native States 1600-1733
• VII. British Ashanti and Fante till 1816
• VIII. Treaties with Ashanti, 1816-1831
• IX. The Growth of British Rule, 1830-1859
• X. Ashanti and Other Native States in the time of Osei Yaw Akoto and Kwaku Dua, 1824-1867
• XI. British, Dutch and Fante, 1863-1874
• XII. Ashanti from 1869-1902
• XIII. Political History, 1874-1938
• XIV. Towards Independence
• XV. The Development of Local Government
• XVI. Social and Economic History
• Appendix I. The European Forts
• Appendix II. The Kings of Ashanti
• General Index