Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why ...(展开全部)

Over the past fifteen years, visitors from the African diaspora have flocked to Cape Coast and Elmina, two towns in Ghana whose chief tourist attractions are the castles and dungeons where slaves were imprisoned before embarking for the New World. This desire to commemorate the Middle Passage contrasts sharply with the silence that normally cloaks the subject within Ghana. Why ...(展开全部)

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. ...(展开全部)

Gocking provides a historical overview of Ghana from the emergence of precolonial states through increasing contact with Europeans that led to the establishment of formal colonial rule by Great Britian at the end of the 19th century. Colonial rule transformed what was known as the Gold Coast economically, socially, and politically, but it contained the seeds of its own demise. ...(展开全部)

Part of Prentice Hall's Connection: Key Themes in World History series. Written based on the author's annual course on slave trade, Captives as Commodities examines three key themes: 1) the African context surrounding the Atlantic slave trade, 2) the history of the slave trade itself, and 3) the changing meaning of race and racism. The author draws recent scholarship to provi...(展开全部)

作者迦多尼是位博学的历史学者，也曾当过校长。他是一位诗人，也写过剧本，但真正让他在文坛留名的却是这本于1901年完成的历史小说。 为写此书，他钻研历史背景，读遍欧洲古籍，寻找所有关于匈奴人的史料，还到法国中部古战场寻找历史临场感。此外，他研究罗马人与匈奴人的战法，为求逼真，战争场面重写了许多回。

作者迦多尼是位博学的历史学者，也曾当过校长。他是一位诗人，也写过剧本，但真正让他在文坛留名的却是这本于1901年完成的历史小说。 为写此书，他钻研历史背景，读遍欧洲古籍，寻找所有关于匈奴人的史料，还到法国中部古战场寻找历史临场感。此外，他研究罗马人与匈奴人的战法，为求逼真，战争场面重写了许多回。

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. With help from CliffsNotes on Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, you explore the first b...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 托比•格林（Toby Green），英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师，现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席，撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。 【译者简介】 郭建龙，自由作家、社会观察家，曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者，已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》，以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。

【作者简介】 托比•格林（Toby Green），英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师，现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席，撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。 【译者简介】 郭建龙，自由作家、社会观察家，曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者，已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》，以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。