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Author: Sir Francis Fuller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136249702 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
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First published in 1921, this is a record of a dynasty which arose in Ashanti in 1695, lasting until 1895, when it fell under the extension of British rule.
Author: Sir Francis Fuller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136249702 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 323
Book Description
First published in 1921, this is a record of a dynasty which arose in Ashanti in 1695, lasting until 1895, when it fell under the extension of British rule.
Author: Sir Francis Charles Bernard Dudley Fuller Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 071461663X Category : Ashanti Languages : en Pages : 323
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First published in 1921, this is a record of a dynasty which arose in Ashanti in 1695, lasting until 1895, when it fell under the extension of British rule.
Author: Robert B. Edgerton Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1451603738 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 316
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For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king's palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the "golden stool," the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.
Author: Prempeh I (King of Ashanti) Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 9780197262610 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 242
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This is a key text for understanding the history of the great West African kingdom of Asante (now in Ghana). It is perhaps the earliest example of history writing in English by an African ruler. The result is an indispensably detailed account of the Asante monarchy from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Context is provided by the inclusion of other writings by or about Agyeman Prempeh, together with four introductory essays by the world's leading scholars of Asante history.
Author: Sir Francis Fuller
Author: Sir Francis Fuller
Author: Sir Francis Charles Bernard Dudley Fuller
Author: Sir Francis Charles Bernard Dudley Fuller
Author: Robert B. Edgerton
Author: Prempeh I (King of Ashanti)
Author: S. Steinberg
Author: M. Epstein
Author: Mortimer Epstein
Author: J. Scott-Keltie
Author: Agrhananda Bharati