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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Gold Coast"”.
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Conventional signs, imperial designs: mapping the Gold Coast, 1874-1957
… The mapping of the British colony of the Gold Coast (Ghana) serves as a case study that illustrates the influence of Africans surveyors, cartographers, and chiefs in the mapping of Africa. The research hinges on three central arguments. First, the techniques and technology of mapping …
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The colonial factor and social transformation on the Gold Coast to 1930
… the incorporation of the territory known as the Gold Coast into the international world economy up to 1930. The focus for the thesis is threefold: developments and conflicts within the Akan social formation itself, pressures and demands by social classes in Europe calling for greater and new …
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Fallible Justice: The Dilemma of the British in the Gold Coast, 1874-1944
… in one of its West African dependencies, the Gold Coast, during the first seventy years of formal colonial rule. In this study that covers the period from the creation of the Gold Coast Colony in 1874 to 1944, I argue that the British were caught between their honest desire to deliver prompt …
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The cost of workplace injury in Mauritius, Barbados, and the Gold Coast, 1925-1943
… territories. The governors of the Gold Coast and Barbados were notably resistant to its implementation and held off enactment. In the Gold Coast, resistance to the WCO came under scrutiny when in 1934 a major workplace accident at Ariston Gold Mines sparked public and political …
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Incidence of tuberculous infection among the native inhabitants of the gold coast and its bearing on the question of immunity
… of the Principal Registrar of Deaths in the Gold Coast for 1933 it was stated that during the previous three years the proportion of deaths from pulmonary tuberculosis had far exceeded that of all other killing diseases with the single exception of non- tuberculous affections of the …
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Sporting mega-events and their influence on the social and physical capital of communities in the host city: The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games experience
… for the 2018 Commonwealth Games (the Games) in Gold Coast City, Australia. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the diverse impacts the Games had on the PC and SC of the BLBC, the institutions the various Games authorities used to govern these impacts and finishes with a contribution to the …
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An exploration of evolving forms of access to performance and image enhancing drugs (PIED), and body image, on Gold Coast, Australia, with particular emphasis on how users reconcile their drift into criminality
… (n40), and semi-structured interviews (22 Gold Coast residents) was undertaken, with current and former PIED users. The Gold Coast, in Queensland, Australia was selected as a focus due to its comparatively high numbers of PIED users. Overall the data suggests that for many on the Gold …
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The Long Road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966
… the emergence of a modern currency system in the Gold Coast and Ghana. It analyses financial events from 1825, the year when the ‘Trade Ounce’, a unit in commerce on the Guinea Coast during the Atlantic slave trade, ceased to be widely used in the Gold Coast and other parts of West Africa, to …
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Prefabricated housing, a solution for Ghana's housing shortage
… of these housing initiatives. In 1952 the then Gold Coast government explored the possibility of employing industrialized Building Systems (IBS) -- PREFAB HOUSES to relieve the housing shortage in the country, then a British colony. The government engaged Messrs. N. V. Schokbeton of Kampen, …
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The Flight of the Sankofa Bird; Paul Strand’s Ghana; An African Portrait, The Fellowship of Man and the Idea of Africa
"At Paul Strand’s birth in 1890, the Gold Coast was an important West African colony of the British Empire.1 By 1963, when Strand, then an older statesman of modern photography, made his second of three trips to photograph Africa, the Gold Coast had become Ghana, the first independent democratic …
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¿Hacia un mundo de regiones urbanas costeras? Límites y perspectivas
… triángulo de Auckland-Sídney-Brisbane (incluida Gold Coast).4 Las RUC desarrollan relaciones de interdependencia funcional entre diversos núcleos urbanos y no sólo su agregación o sumatoria por mera contigüidad espacial. La escala regional crea una nueva dinámica, una nueva complejidad y una …
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Tuskegee, Achimota and the Construction of Black Transcultural Identity
… and implementation in the U.S. and in the Gold Coast. The two black actors who figure prominently in this case study are Booker T. Washington, the president and founder of Tuskegee Institute, and his African counter-part, James E.K. Aggrey, a co-founder of Achimota who together became the …
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Archaeology and Settlement Histories Along the Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… of the Pra River, 15 kilometers north of the coastal trading and port town of Shama. Mapping of surface features, surface collections, shovel test pits, and test excavations are used to document intra- and inter-site artifact distributions. These lines of evidence are used in conjunction with …
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Archaeology And Settlement Histories Along The Pra River, Southern Ghana, Circa 500 B.C. – Ad 1970
… of the Pra River, 15 kilometers north of the coastal trading and port town of Shama. Mapping of surface features, surface collections, shovel test pits, and test excavations are used to document intra- and inter-site artifact distributions. These lines of evidence are used in conjunction with …
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Frances R. Donovan and The Chicago School of Sociology: A Case Study in Marginality
… series included The Hobo, The Ghetto and The Gold Coast and The Slum, among other publications now regarded as early classics in urban ethnography. These studies also are known for their middle class preoccupation with marginal "types" and deviant subcultures, as well as a neglect of studies …
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Transparency and Accountability Mechanisms in Ghana's Petroleum Revenue Management Act: A Critical Analysis and Socio-Political Contextualisation with Counterpoints from Norway and Botswana
Once known as the Gold Coast due to minerals, Ghana has very little to show for that. The revenue generated from minerals in Ghana went into the Consolidated Fund associated with mismanagement and corruption. Auditor-General's annual reports support this assertion, and the Commission of Inquiry set …
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Ending Well, Making the Harvest-Paths of Our Values
… narratives, creating place-names like the Gold Coast, renamed Ghana after independence. The capitalist framework of monocultural extraction, one reliant on a colonial government and its land survey department, continues under contemporary African states. Architecture and planning—a practice …
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The effects of commodification on cultural significance: two African fortifications
… A detailed history of Europeans on the Gold Coast, the development of Elmina Castle and the impact of trans-Atlantic slavery on the consumption of heritage is studied. The commodification of the Castle of Good Hope is written within the context of the prevailing South African heritage …
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Assessment of competitive requirements, repeated sprint paddle ability and trainability of paddling performance in surfers
… custom-made GPS units was established (SurfTraX, Gold Coast, Australia) (Study 1: The validity and inter-unit reliability of custom-made SurfTraX GPS units and use during surfing). Durations, intensities, external loads and velocity of movements during competitive surfing were then examined (Study …
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