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Article: Colonialism and Development: Britain and Its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960. (book reviews)
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- History Today
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- November 1, 1994
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* Colonial Ghana - the Gold Coast - attracted some of the most talented scholars of a brilliant first generation of historians of Africa. One of the most talented of them all was Richard Rathbone, and although his now venerable doctoral thesis can still only be consulted in typescript, his publication record recently took three leaps forward, firstly with two volumes on Ghana in the |End of Empire' series and secondly with Murder and Politics in Colonial Ghana. The story is fascinating, complex and richly illuminating both of African history and of British rule. At the heart of it is a kind of double biography. One figure is Nana Sir Ofori Atta I, King of Akyem Abuakwa, ...