Overview
This is a study of the administration and government of the West African kingdom of Asante between 1744 and 1873. Larry W. Yarak analyses the nature and development of the pre-colonial state, and traces the history and character of the Asante-Dutch relationship from the early eighteenth century until the Dutch departure from the Gold Coast in 1872. Dr Yarak has carried out extensive researches in hitherto neglected Dutch archives, and made a detailed examination of important Asante oral sources. His book broadens our knowledge of the complexities of Afro-European relations on the pre-colonial Gold Coast, and contributes to wider historiographical debates concerning our understanding of African institutions. Asante and the Dutch is a substantial and original contribution to the history of a powerful imperial African state in the period before the European `Scramble' for Africa.
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Author: Larry W. Yarak (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Texas A & M University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 2.40cm
, Length: 22.30cm
Weight: 0.509kg
ISBN: 9780198221562
ISBN 10: 0198221568
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 19 July 1990
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
' it clearly represents a major contribution to the study of this important state.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 'Larry Yarak has published a thoroughly researched book about the relationship between the Asante, the Dutch, and the Elminans on the Gold Coast of West Africa. This is an historian's book, written for historians familiar with Gold Coast and Asante history during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is filled with details, but each of the six chapters has a good introduction, and most chapters have useful conclusions. In addition, Yarak often summarizes, bringing the reader back to the main point of the chapter of the book as a whole.' Harvey M. Feinberg, Southern Connecticut College, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Volume 24, Number 3 (1991) 'Yarak brings to his study considerable Dutch archival material and in fact applies Dutch sources to analyses of the workings of the Asante administrative system more extensively than any scholar before him ... Yarak has produced an important, stimulating, and provocative work of relevance not only to Asante studies but to analyses of other traditional political institutions throughout Africa as well.' Joseph K. Adjaye, University of Pittsburgh, American Historical Review
` it clearly represents a major contribution to the study of this important state.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 'Larry Yarak has published a thoroughly researched book about the relationship between the Asante, the Dutch, and the Elminans on the Gold Coast of West Africa. This is an historian's book, written for historians familiar with Gold Coast and Asante history during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is filled with details, but each of the six chapters has a good introduction, and most chapters have useful conclusions. In addition, Yarak often summarizes, bringing the reader back to the main point of the chapter of the book as a whole.' Harvey M. Feinberg, Southern Connecticut College, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Volume 24, Number 3 (1991) 'Yarak brings to his study considerable Dutch archival material and in fact applies Dutch sources to analyses of the workings of the Asante administrative system more extensively than any scholar before him ... Yarak has produced an important, stimulating, and provocative work of relevance not only to Asante studies but to analyses of other traditional political institutions throughout Africa as well.' Joseph K. Adjaye, University of Pittsburgh, American Historical Review
An important, stimulating, and provocative work of relevance not only to Asante studies but to analyses of other traditional political institutions throughout Africa as well. --American Historical Review<br> Makes skillful use of the voluminous Dutch archival material as well as the more sparse but illuminating oral sources. --Choice<br> This is an important book which widens our knowledge not only of Asante-Dutch relations at Elmina during the 18th and 19th centuries but also offers an important and original analysis of the Asante administration apparatus as it evolved to meet the demands placed on it by these expanding economic and commercial ties. --African Studies Review<br>
<br> An important, stimulating, and provocative work of relevance not only to Asante studies but to analyses of other traditional political institutions throughout Africa as well. --American Historical Review<br> Makes skillful use of the voluminous Dutch archival material as well as the more sparse but illuminating oral sources. --Choice<br> This is an important book which widens our knowledge not only of Asante-Dutch relations at Elmina during the 18th and 19th centuries but also offers an important and original analysis of the Asante administration apparatus as it evolved to meet the demands placed on it by these expanding economic and commercial ties. --African Studies Review<br>
` it clearly represents a major contribution to the study of this important state.' The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 'Larry Yarak has published a thoroughly researched book about the relationship between the Asante, the Dutch, and the Elminans on the Gold Coast of West Africa. This is an historian's book, written for historians familiar with Gold Coast and Asante history during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The book is filled with details, but each of the six chapters has a good introduction, and most chapters have useful conclusions. In addition, Yarak often summarizes, bringing the reader back to the main point of the chapter of the book as a whole.' Harvey M. Feinberg, Southern Connecticut College, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Volume 24, Number 3 (1991) 'Yarak brings to his study considerable Dutch archival material and in fact applies Dutch sources to analyses of the workings of the Asante administrative system more extensively than any scholar before him ... Yarak has produced an important, stimulating, and provocative work of relevance not only to Asante studies but to analyses of other traditional political institutions throughout Africa as well.' Joseph K. Adjaye, University of Pittsburgh, American Historical Review
