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The Business of Decolonization serves to deepen our understanding of the end of the British empire, too often approached as if it was a process shaped and experienced exclusively by nationalist and imperial politicians and policy-makers. It explores British companies' experience of, and involvement in, developments leading to the transfer of power in Ghana, the former colony of the Gold Coast. The book demonstrates that businessmen developed strategies to cope with political change, reveals the extent of their involvement in nationalist politics, and highlights the contrasting responses of different companies to political and constitutional developments in the colony. Drawing on an extensive range of company, business association, personal, and official papers, the book focuses primarily on company activity. However, it also investigates relations between British firms and the colonial state on the eve of Ghanaian independence, and examines the place of British business interests in British policy.

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The author's comprehensive and judicious use of source material makes this study a model for future scholars of decolonization Journal of African History This is a thoroughly original, well-written and exciting book. It is unusual in being very much more than a scholarly elaboration of what previous scholarship had expected the sources to reveal. It is instead a book which usefully re-writes some of the assumptions of scholars who lacked the energy and skills of this author The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History This is a book one could and certainly should recommend to students without a qualm The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History This excellent book by Sarah Stockwell commends itself as a genuinely pioneering study as well as a very significant contribution to our knowledge of the complex factors which go towards an explanation of the end of empires The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Systematically researched ... rich range of sources Business History

The author's comprehensive and judicious use of source material makes this study a model for future scholars of decolonization Journal of African History This is a thoroughly original, well-written and exciting book. It is unusual in being very much more than a scholarly elaboration of what previous scholarship had expected the sources to reveal. It is instead a book which usefully re-writes some of the assumptions of scholars who lacked the energy and skills of this author The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History This is a book one could and certainly should recommend to students without a qualm The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History This excellent book by Sarah Stockwell commends itself as a genuinely pioneering study as well as a very significant contribution to our knowledge of the complex factors which go towards an explanation of the end of empires The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History Systematically researched ... rich range of sources Business History

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