Author: Apter, David E.
Title: The Gold Coast in Transition
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1955. orig. cloth. xiii, 355 pp, 24x15cm,. 8pp photoplates. Some rubbing. Some light stains to binding. Good. ¶ Contents: The African Challenge to Democracy; Historical Backround; The Physical & Economic Environment; The Traditionally Oriented System; Political Organization Among the Akan; Patterns of Indirect Rule; The Politics of Indirect Rule; Towards Autonomy within the Commonwealth; The Structures of Secular Government; Patterns of Gold Coast Politics; The Legislative Assembly in Action; National Issues & Local Politics; Control Factors in Institutional Transfer; Prospects of Gold Coast Democracy; Appendix: A Note on Methodology.

Keywords: African Colonial History, West Africa, British Colonialism, Colonial History, Political Politics, Kwame Nkrumah, Government, Administration, Gold Coast Colony, Ghana