| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.1

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Book Review

Sub-Saharan Africa

Raymond E. Dumett. El Dorado in West Africa: The Gold-Mining Frontier, African Labor, and Colonial Capitalism in the Gold Coast, 1875–1900. Athens: Ohio University Press. 1998. Pp. xviii, 396. Cloth $44.95, paper $19.95.

Over the years Raymond E. Dumett has contributed much to our understanding of the economic history of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). In this most welcome book, he amplifies his earlier forays into the history of Akan gold-mining into a thorough exploration of the mining frontier in the southern Gold Coast in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period, which saw the waning of Asante power and the waxing of British imperial involvement, is richly documented in indigenous and European sources, and Dumett is to be congratulated on his assiduity in pursuing and deploying a very broad and diverse body of information. This book, then, is painstaking in the best sense of that term. . . .

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