Between the sea & the lagoon : an eco-social history of the Anlo of southeastern Ghana, c. 1850 to recent times /
Between the sea and the lagoon
Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong.
- Athens : Oxford [England] : Ohio University Press ; James Currey, 2001.
- xii, 244 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
- Western African studies .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1 -- Migration, Topography -- & Early Settlements in the Keta Lagoon Basin -- 2 -- Abolition, British Influence -- & Smuggling in the Anlo Lowlands up to c. 1890 -- 3 -- Commercial Prosperity, Urbanization -- & Social Life in Early Colonial Keta -- 4 -- Unstable Ecology -- Belief, Knowledge & the Enigma of Sea Erosion -- in Colonial Keta, 1907-32 -- 5 -- The Search for Space -- land Reclamation, Migrant Fishing, Shallot Cultivation -- & Illicit Liquor Distillation in Anlo, c. 1930-57 -- 6 -- Harbours & Dams -- Economic Development &i Environmental Change -- in the Lower Volta Basin, 1957 to the Present -- 7 -- Coastal Erosion, Political Ecology -- & the Discourse of Environmental Citizenship -- in Twentiethcentury Anlo -- 8 -- Living with the Sea -- Society & Culture in Contemporary Anlo -- Bibliography -- Index -- Maps, Figures & Photographs.
0821414089 (Ohio University Press cloth) 0821414097 (Ohio University Press paper)