State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante
$171.00
USDScholarship on the West African kingdom of Asante is at the leading edge of Africanist research. T.C. McCaskie gives a detailed and nuanced historical portrait of precolonial Asante. The book is both a profound historical reconstruction of an African polity, and a deeply informed meditation on Asante concepts and ideas. Throughout the book, the Asante experience is consistently discussed in relation to a broad range of historiography and critical theory.
- Detailed historical reconstruction of an African culture
- Analytical and theoretical synthesis
- An original work which has no competitors in the field
Reviews & endorsements
"...an extremely detailed and skillful reconstruction of the Asante past." American Historical Review
"This intellectually ambitious and feisty book seeks to provide an alternative interpretation of Asante history during its centuries of independence and thereby to model a transforming approach to African historiography....McCaskie's analytical argument is embedded in richly detailed and voluminously annotated Asante cultural and historical data derived from published and unpublished, oral and written, Asante and European sources." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Product details
March 1995Hardback
9780521410090
516 pages
235 × 158 × 33 mm
0.86kg
12 b/w illus. 4 maps
Available
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Varieties of the Asante past
- 2. Society and state in Asante history
- 3. Asante odwira: experience interpreted, history constructed
- 4. The Asante past considered
- Appendices.
