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Title: A Political History of the Gambia, 1816-1994
Condition: New
Author: Arnold Hughes, David Perfect
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1580461263
EAN: 9781580461269
ISBN: 9781580461269
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History
Release Date: 01/07/2008
Description: The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government.A Political History of the Gambia: 1816-1994 is the first complete account of the political history of the former British West African dependency to be written. It makes use of much hitherto unconsulted or unavailable British and Gambian official and private documentary sources, as well as interviews with many Gambian politicians and former British colonial officials. The first part of the book charts the origins and characteristics of modern politics in colonial Bathurst (Banjul) and its expansion into the Gambian interior (Protectorate) in the two decades after World War II. By independence in 1965, older urban-based parties in the capital had been defeated bya new, rural-based political organisation, the People's Progressive Party (PPP). The second part of the book analyzes the means by which the PPP, under President Sir Dawda Jawara, succeeded in defeating both existing and new rival political parties and an attempted coup in 1981. The book closes with an explanation of the demise of the PPP at the hands of an army coup in 1994. The book not only establishes those distinctive aspects ofGambian political history, but also relates these to the wider regional and African context, during the colonial and independence periods.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 1g
Book Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Release Year: 2008

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