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The Journal of African History. Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xvii + 800. £1. 0. The Journal of African History.

This focus reflects the complex and sophisticated nature of the Asante social system, a system which had its basis in administrative unity and a core idea of nationhood. This is a fascinating book that will.

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Cambridge: University Press, 1975. 1., author {Richard Llewelyn Benson Rathbone}, journal {Bulletin of The School of Oriental and African Studies-university of London}, year {1977}, volume {40}, pages {661-662} }. Richard Llewelyn Benson Rathbone.

17 Ivor Wilks, ‘Ashanti government’, in Daryll Forde and P. M. Kaberry (eds), West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century (London, 1967), 232.

16 In a 1967 essay Wilks expressed the view that The restrictions upon private Ashanti entrepreneurial activity. made possible the planned development of the national economy. 17 Ivor Wilks, ‘Ashanti government’, in Daryll Forde and P.

This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. general studies which reflect the interdisciplinary interests of the African Studies Centre at Cambridge. Volumes to date have combined historical, anthropological, economic, political and other perspectives.

His 1975 book Asante in the 19th Century remains both a classic and a standard text of Africanist scholarship. Legon: Institute of African Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wilks was the author of 178 published works and one of the masters of African historiography. ASA Distinguished Africanist Award 1998, Herskovits Professor of African Studies, Professor Emeritus. South Wales and the Rising of 1839: Class Struggle as Armed Struggle. Urbana & Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 1986 (with N. Levtzion & B. Haight).