State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante Revised Edition Contributor(s): McCaskie, T. C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521894328 ISBN-13: 9780521894326 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $47.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2003 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - History | Europe - Renaissance |
Dewey: 966.701 |
Series: African Studies |
Physical Information: 1.15" H x 6" W x 9" (1.65 lbs) 516 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - African |