ISBN: 9781472584090 - 'your secret language': classics in the british colonies of west africa (classical diaspora) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This book is the first to examine the complex and contradictory history of Classics in Sierra Leone, Ghana and Nigeria. It investigates how Classical Studies, as an integral part of colonial education, enforced a notion of cultural inferiority on African subjects, but conversely played an enabling role in nationalist expression. The enquiry is structured around three main questions: how Classics contributed to the formation of a new class of Europeanising West Africans in the late 19th century; how Classics was implicated in the ideological struggles of the early twentieth century over the desirability of 'practical' or 'agricultural' education; and how the uses of Classics changed in the ye.…

Zustand: New. An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Series: Classical Diaspora. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFD; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBTQ; JNB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 14. Weight in Grams: 372. . 2014. NIPPOD. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

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Zustand: New. An investigation into the teaching of classics in the colonial education of West Africa in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.&Uumlber den AutorBarbara Goff is Professor of Classics at the University of Reading, UK.