Market Encounters. Bianca Murillo

Market Encounters - Bianca Murillo


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      Market Encounters

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       Market Encounters

       Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana

      Bianca Murillo

      OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS

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      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      A version of chapter three is based on Bianca Murillo, “‘The Modern Shopping Experience’: Kingsway Department Store and Consumer Politics in Ghana,” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 82, no. 3 (2012): 368–92, © 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission from Cambridge University Press.

      COVER IMAGE. Miss Ghana, Monica Amekoafia, visits Kingsway Department Store, Accra, April 1957.

      Reproduced with kind permission of Unilever from the original at the Unilever Archives, UAC/2/10/B1/8/1/15.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Murillo, Bianca, author.

      Title: Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana / Bianca Murillo.

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017027990| ISBN 9780821422885 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422892 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446133 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Consumption (Economics)—Ghana—History—20th century. | Consumption (Economics)—Political aspects—Ghana. | Consumers—Ghana—History—20th century. | Ghana—Commerce—History—20th century.

      Classification: LCC HC1060.Z9 C64 2017 | DDC 381.309667—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017027990

       To Teresa Rubie

       Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       List of Abbreviations

       Introduction. Consuming Histories and Creating Economies

       Chapter 1. A Door “Wide Open” Imagining Gold Coast Markets

       Chapter 2. “We Cannot Afford to Be Fooled” African Intermediaries on Shifting Commercial Terrain

       Chapter 3. “In Time for Independence” Kingsway Department Store, Modernity, and the New Nation

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