State and Society in Pre-colonial Asante (African Studies)

Author: T. C. McCaskie Price: $ 131.00 (new) $ 98.57 (used) Medium: Hardcover (516 pages) Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1995-03-31

Editorial Description

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.