State and Society in Pre-Colonial Asante - Paperbackby T. C. McCaskie (Author) 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