Boundaries, Communities and State-Making in West Africa Nugent Paperback

Boundaries Communities and StateMaking in West Africa\nby Paul Nugent\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Paul Nugent\nTitle: Boundaries Communities and StateMaking in West Africa\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Geopolitics\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781107622500\nISBN-10: 1107622506\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nBorder regions are often considered to be the neglected margins. In this book, Paul Nugent argues that through a comparison of the Senegambia and the trans-Volta (Ghana/Togo), we can see that the geographical margins have shaped notional centres at least as much as the reverse. Through a study of three centuries of history, this book demonstrates that states were forged through an extended process of converting a topog.