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1 online resource (xiii, 340 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge worlds |
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Routledge worlds.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Edmund Abaka & Kwame Osei Kwarteng -- The Ahafo-Asante relations, 1712-1935 / Kwame Osei Kwarteng & Kwame Adum-Kyeremeh -- The Asante Factor in the political re-orientation of Northern Ghana : a historical evaluation of the Bassari-Dagomba relations, 1745-1876 / Limpu I. Digbun -- Asante Imperium expansion : imperial outlook and construction of empire / Eugenia Anderson -- Contending empires : Asante and Britain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries / Ezekiel Walker -- Historical reconstruction of an Asante ancillary state : origin, migration and settlement of Sekyere Kwamang / Osei Prempeh -- Dupuis' discourse on Asante in the 19th century : an evaluation of the Islamic themes in the Journal of Residence in Ashantee (1824) / Jibrail Bin Yusuf -- Why Islam did not make a significant impact on Asante during the18th and 19th centuries / Jibrail Bin Yusuf & Victoria Agyare-Appiah |
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Red gold : kola nuts, the kola nut trade and the political economy of Asante / Edmund Abaka -- An indigenous innovative touch : origin and significance of the Kente cloth in Asante culture / Frimpong Nana Asamoah -- Adinkra symbols and proverbs as tools for elucidating indigenous Asante political thought / Alex J. Wilson -- The tropology of Akan drum language : sounds and meanings from the Mamponghene's drum appellation / Peter Arthur, Philomena Yeboah and Darko Baffour -- Secular government and the Court of the Asante Ahemaa in the 21st century : an ethnographic account of Ejisu and Juaben traditional areas / Lydia Amoah & Charles Prempeh -- Epidemiology and local responses to diseases in Asante : a focus on Kumase since the beginning of the twentieth century / Samuel Adu-Gyamfi, Wilhemina Joselyn Donkoh, Dennis Baffour Awuah -- Girl child education in Asante, 1901-1957 / Victor Asante Angbah |
| Summary |
"The Asante World provides fresh perspectives on the Asante, the largest Akan group in Southern Ghana, and what new scholars are thinking and writing about the "world the Asante made." Featuring innovative and insightful contributions from leading historians of the Asante world, this volume is essential reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars concerned with African Studies, African diaspora history, the history of Ghana and the Gold Coast, the history of Islam in Africa, and Asante history"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Edmund Abaka is Associate Professor of History and International Studies, University of Miami. His publications include Kola is God's Gift: Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives & the Kola Industry of Asante & the Gold Coast (2005); House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles and Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade (2012). Kwame Osei Kwarteng is aProfessor of History, former Head of the Department of History, and currently Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He is the author of A History of Ahafo 1719-1958: Ahafo from dependence to independence (2011) and A History of the Elephant in Ghana in the Twentieth Century (2011) |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group, viewed on June 09, 2021) |
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Ashanti (African people)
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Ashanti (African people) -- History.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Ashanti (African people)
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Ashanti (Kingdom) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96106379
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| Subject |
Africa -- Ashanti (Kingdom)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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handbooks.
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History
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Handbooks and manuals.
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Guides et manuels.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Abaka, Edmund, editor.
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Kwarteng, K. Osei (Kwame Osei), editor.
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| ISBN |
1351184067 |
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9781351184076 |
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1351184075 |
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9781351184052 |
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1351184059 |
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9781351184045 |
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1351184040 |
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9781351184069 |
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