Market Encounters. Bianca Murillo

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      Market Encounters

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

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       Market Encounters

       Consumer Cultures in Twentieth-Century Ghana

      Bianca Murillo

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      A version of chapter three is based on Bianca Murillo, “‘The Modern Shopping Experience’: Kingsway Department Store and Consumer Politics in Ghana,” Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 82, no. 3 (2012): 368–92, © 2012 by Cambridge University Press. Reprinted with permission from Cambridge University Press.

      COVER IMAGE. Miss Ghana, Monica Amekoafia, visits Kingsway Department Store, Accra, April 1957.

      Reproduced with kind permission of Unilever from the original at the Unilever Archives, UAC/2/10/B1/8/1/15.

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Murillo, Bianca, author.

      Title: Market encounters : consumer cultures in twentieth-century Ghana / Bianca Murillo.

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2017. | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017027990| ISBN 9780821422885 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422892 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446133 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Consumption (Economics)—Ghana—History—20th century. | Consumption (Economics)—Political aspects—Ghana. | Consumers—Ghana—History—20th century. | Ghana—Commerce—History—20th century.

      Classification: LCC HC1060.Z9 C64 2017 | DDC 381.309667—dc23

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