Drink, Power and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c.1800 to Recent Times (Social History of Africa) - Softcover

Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852556233 ISBN 13: 9780852556238

Publisher: James Currey Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

This analysis of the social history of alcohol in Ghana since the early 19th century blends the approaches of history, anthropology, social medicine, theology and political science. North America: Heinemann

About this title

About the Author:

Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong completed his Ph.D. in African history at the University of Virginia in 1993, and is assistant professor of history at Harvard University. His articles on the social and cultural history of Ghana have appeared in Histoire Sociale

Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry

the International Journal of African Historical Studies

and the Journal of African History.

Review:

"[This book] is well-written, accessible to a variety of readers, thoroughly researched, original in approach and insight, and broad in its implications. . . . Akyeampong takes very seriously the challenge of conceiving African history in terms of indigenous intellectual categories and in terms of the experience of those involved. Real people come to life in these pages...."-Charles Ambler, University of Texas "�This book� is well-written, accessible to a variety of readers, thoroughly researched, original in approach and insight, and broad in its implications. . . . Akyeampong takes very seriously the challenge of conceiving African history in terms of indigenous intellectual categories and in terms of the experience of those involved. Real people come to life in these pages...."-Charles Ambler, University of Texas ?[This book] is well-written, accessible to a variety of readers, thoroughly researched, original in approach and insight, and broad in its implications. . . . Akyeampong takes very seriously the challenge of conceiving African history in terms of indigenous intellectual categories and in terms of the experience of those involved. Real people come to life in these pages....?-Charles Ambler, University of Texas

About this edition

• Publisher: James Currey Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0852556233
• ISBN 13: 9780852556238
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 213