The Colonial state in Northern Ghana: the political economy of pacification

摘要: The installation of the colonial capitalist economic system required creation certain socio‐political structures to ensure reorganisation indigenous economies for accumulation. This precipitated appearance and gradual sometimes violent extension state into hinterland colonies. concept ‘colonial state’ is employed here denote its characteristic difference from as it emerged in context European capitalism. colonies was imposed above supervised a captive population economy, which together were ‘protected’ expatriate metropolitan capitalism, largely responsible state. latter provided unusual limits operation. Colonial capitalism ‘bastard’ form state's presence over‐arching also denied entrepreneurs any substantial participation economy. It did this within Ghana through legislation undercu...