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1 electronic resource (viii, 326 pages ). |
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Integration and conflict studies ; volume 12 |
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Integration and conflict studies ; v. 12.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the Upper Guinea coast in global perspective / Jacqueline Knörr and Christoph Kohl -- Towards a definition of transnational as a family construct : an historical and micro perspective / Bruce L. Mouser -- Lusocreole culture and identity compared : the cases of Guinea-Bissau and Sri Lanka / Christoph Kohl -- Freetown's Yoruba-modelled secret societies as transnational and trans-ethnic mechanisms for social integration / Nathaniel King -- Contested transnational spaces : debating emigrants' citizenship and role in Guinean politics / Anita Schroven -- Identity beyond ID -- diaspora within the nation / Markus Rudolf -- The African "other" in the Cape Verde Islands : interaction, integration and the forging of an immigration policy / Pedro F. José Marcelino -- Celebrating asymmetries -- Creole stratification and the regrounding of home in Cape Verdean migrant return visits / Heike Drotbohm -- Travelling terms : analysis of semantic fluctuations in the Atlantic world / Wilson Trajano Filho -- Rice and revolution : agrarian life and global food policy on the Upper Guinea coast / Joanna Davidson -- Transnational and local models of non-refoulement : youth and women in the moral economy of patronage in post-war Liberia and Sierra Leone / William P. Murphy -- Expanding the space for freedom of expression in post-war Sierra Leone / Sylvanus Spencer -- Sierra Leone, child soldiers, and global flows of child protection expertise / Susan Shepler -- The "Mandingo question" : transnational ethnic identity and violent conflict in an Upper Guinea border area / Christian K. Hřjbjerg -- Solo Darboe, former diamond dealer : transnational connections and home politics in the twentieth-century Gambia / Alice Bellagamba -- Market networks and warfare : a comparison of the seventeenth century blade weapons trade and the nineteenth century firearms trade in the Casamance / Peter Mark and José da Silva Horta. |
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| Summary |
For centuries, Africa Upper Guinea Coast region has been the site of regional and global interactions, with societies from different parts of the world engaging in economic trade, cultural exchange, and conflict. This book examines how such encounters have continued into the present day. |
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Globalization -- Political aspects -- Guinea (Region)
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Guinea (Region) -- Politics and government.
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Guinea (Region) -- Social conditions.
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International trade.
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Commerce international.
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Anthropology.
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Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
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Sociology and anthropology.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Globalization -- Political aspects
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Politics and government
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Social conditions
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Guinea (Region)
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Knörr, Jacqueline, 1960- editor.
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Kohl, Christoph, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective New York : Berghahn, [2016] 9781785330698 (hardback : alk. paper) (DLC) 2015026968 |
| ISBN |
9781785330704 ebook |
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1785330705 |
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9781785330698 hardback : alk. paper |
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9781785333736 |
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1785333739 |
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1785330691 |
| Standard No. |
40025871790 |
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GBVCP 1030560811 |
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UKMGB 017711864 |
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UKMGB 018860087 |
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