Gold of Africa
Author: Timothy F. Garrard
Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13:
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Red Gold of Africa
Author: Eugenia W. Herbert
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780299096045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classic history of copper working and use throughout Africa. Researched with a depth of scholarship that will leave future historians green with envy.
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Author: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-02-26
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 069118268X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIssued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Black Gold of the Sun
Author: Ekow Eshun
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 0307425010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London to African-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. He goes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storied slave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom of Asante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret about his lineage that will compel him to question everything he knows about himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs of his childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis, Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and of the pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in these vibrant contemporary worlds.
Ancient Ghana
Author: Philip Koslow
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 9780791031261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscusses the settlement of West Africa, the spread of Islam, the establishment of the gold trade, and the rise, civilization, and fall of the Soninke states known as Ghana
A Ritual Geology
Author: Robyn d'Avignon
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2022-07-11
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1478023074
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSet against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa’s goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world’s oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa’s orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d’Avignon uncovers a dynamic “ritual geology” of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d’Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology.
White Gold
Author: Giles Milton
Publisher: John Murray
Published: 2012-04-12
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1444717723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.
Going for Gold
Author: T. Dunbar Moodie
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1994-09-27
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780520086449
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An indispensable look at the working conditions, social lives, and collective action of black miners. . . . [Moodie's] meticulous, reflective, incessantly questioning approach to power, drink, sexuality, conflict, and routine life in mines and compounds reveals an extraordinary world at the edge of hope and desperation."—Charles Tilly, The New School for Social Research "Combines a rigorous use of theory with a marvellous and sensitive sympathy."—Terence O. Ranger, co-editor of The Invention of Tradition
Diamonds, Gold and War
Author: Martin Meredith
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781416526377
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El Dorado in West Africa
Author: Raymond E. Dumett
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780821411971
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEl Dorado in West Africa explores the first modern gold rush of Ghana in all its dimensions - land, labor, capital, traditional African mining, technology, transport, management, the clash of cultures, and colonial rule. The rich tapestry of events is textured with unexpected ironies and paradoxes. Professor Dumett tells the story of the expatriate-led gold boom of 1875-1900 against the background of colonial capitalism. Through the use of field interviews, he also brings to light the expansion of a parallel "African gold-mining frontier, " which outpaced the expatriate mining sector.
