From head-loading to the iron horse : railway building in colonial Ghana and the origins of tropical development /
International development has its origins in the histories of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European colonisation. What happens when a leading colonial power decides to transform a model tropical colony, relying on head-loading of goods as the predominant form of transport, into a modern m...
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| Language: | English |
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Bamenda, Cameroon : [Oxford] :
Langaa Research & Publishing cig ; Distributed in and outside N. America by African Books Collective,
2013
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Table of Contents:
- A Slow Beginning, 1879-1895
- The Development of the Western Line, 1895-1912
- The Eastern Line and the Development of Lighterage Ports, 1904-1918
- Post-War Expansion : The Ten-Year Development Plan (1920-1930)
- The Recruitment of Construction Workers and Colonial Labour Policy
- The Acquisition of Railway and Harbour Land and Colonial Land Policy
- Railway investment and Colonial Financial Policy
- The Management System, Personnel and Labour Relations
- Operational Problems and Issues
- The Economic and Social Impact of the Railways
- Railways : Commerce and Crafts, Urbanisation and Public Health
- Railways and Economic Development : The Gold Coast Experience in the Global Context.
