State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante

ISBN-13: 9780521894326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 516 str.

T. C. McCaskie; David Anderson; Carolyn Brown

Opis

Scholarship 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.