Ivor Wilks

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Ivor Wilks is affiliated with the following schools: University of Oxford, Northwestern University, University of Ghana, Bangor University

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According to Wikipedia, Professor Emeritus Ivor G. Wilks was a noted British Africanist and historian, specializing in Ghana. Considered one of the founders of modern African historiography, he was an authority on the Ashanti Empire in Ghana and the Welsh working-class movement in the 19th century. At the time of his death, he was Professor Emeritus of History at Northwestern University in Illinois, USA.

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Ivor Wilks's Published Works

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Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political Order (1975) (229)
Forests of Gold: Essays on the Akan and the Kingdom of Asante (1993) (69)
Aspects of Bureaucratization in Ashanti in the Nineteenth Century (1966) (52)
The Northern factor in Ashanti history (1961) (46)
The Rise of the Akwamu Empire, c. 1650-1710 (1957) (36)
A Medieval Trade-Route from the Niger to the Gulf of Guinea (1962) (35)
The Northern Factor in Ashanti History: Begho and the Mande (1961) (33)
Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I. The matter of Bitu (1982) (31)
Chronicles From Gonja: A Tradition of West African Muslim Historiography (1987) (30)
Wa and the Wala: Islam and Polity in Northwestern Ghana (1991) (29)
Wangara, Akan and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. II. The Struggle for Trade (1982) (26)
The cloth of many colored silks: papers on history and society, Ghanaian and Islamic in honor of Ivor Wilks (1996) (23)
THE GROWTH OF ISLAMIC LEARNING IN GHANA (1963) (22)
'Mallams Do Not Fight With the Heathen': A Note on Suwarian Attitudes to Jihad (2002) (21)
The Golden stool : studies of the Asante center and periphery. Anthropological papers of the AMNH ; v. 65, pt. 1 (1987) (19)
Asante: Human Sacrifice or Capital Punishment? A Rejoinder (1988) (19)
The Ashanti Kings in the Eighteenth Century: A Revised Chronology (1960) (17)
On Mentally Mapping Greater Asante: A Study of Time and Motion (1992) (15)
Political bi-polarity in nineteenth century Asante (1970) (15)
One Nation, Many Histories: Ghana Past and Present (1996) (14)
Slavery and Akan origins ? Commentary. Author's reply (1994) (14)
The State of the Akan and the Akan States: A Discursion (1982) (13)
The Forest and the Twis (2005) (13)
'The history of Ashanti Kings and the whole country itself' and other writings (2004) (11)
A NOTE ON THE EARLY SPREAD OF ISLAM IN DAGOMBA (1965) (10)
"Slavery and Akan Origins?" A Reply (1994) (9)
Akwamu and Otublohum: An Eighteenth-Century Akan Marriage Arrangement (1959) (8)
Al-Hajj Salim Suwari and the Suwarians: a search for sources (2011) (7)
The Oyo Empire, c.1600–c.1836. A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade (1979) (6)
Asante nationhood and colonial administrators, 1896–1935 (2000) (6)
A Note on Sovereignty (1955) (6)
Asante at the End of the Nineteenth Century: Setting the Record Straight (2019) (6)
The cavity produced by gasifying thin deep seams (1983) (4)
South Wales and the Rising of 1839: Class Struggle as Armed Struggle (1984) (4)
South Wales and the Rising of 1839 (1984) (3)
Asante policy towards the Hausa trade in the nineteenth century (2018) (3)
Pawnship in Africa : debt bondage in historical perspective (1997) (3)
“Unity and Progress”: Asante Politics Revisited (2022) (3)
UNESCO General History of Africa. Volume I: Methodology and African Prehistory (1982) (2)
Consul Dupuis and Wangara: A Window on Islam in Early Nineteenth-Century Asante (1995) (2)
Wangara, Akan, and Portuguese in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (2020) (2)
A Note on Twifo and Akwamu (1958) (2)
The Krobo: Traditional Social and Religious Life of a West African People . By Hugo Huber. (Studia Instituti Anthropos, Vol. 16.) St. Augustin near Bonn: The Anthropos Institute, 1963. Pp. 306, plates, figures. DM 40. (1967) (2)
Do Africans Have a Sence of Time (1975) (2)
More Myth than Reality (1979) (2)
R.A. Sargent: “From a Redistribution to an Imperial Social Formation: Benin c. 1293–1536” (1986) (1)
The Danes in Guinea (1968) (1)
The World War One service of Jacob Dosoo Amenyah of Ada (2009) (1)
ANTHROPOLOGY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE HISTORY OF BANDA Making History in Banda: Anthropological Visions of Africa's Past. By ANN BROWER STAHL. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xix+268. £47.50; $69.95 (ISBN 0-521-80182-6). (2003) (1)
Nehemia Levtzion and Islam in Ghana: Reminiscences (2008) (1)
Asante State and Society (1996) (1)
She Who Blazed a Trail: Akyaawa Yikwan of Asante (2016) (1)
A portrait of Otumfuo Opoku Ware II as a young man (1995) (1)
Akan Weights and the Gold Trade (1981) (0)
The Growth of the Akwapim State: A Study in the Control of Evidence (2018) (0)
Traders in Ghana (1981) (0)
The Revolutionary Design: a Workers’ Republic (2021) (0)
Insurrections in Texas and Wales: the careers of John Rees : a Welshman in Texas: John Rees goes to war / (1982) (0)
Strikes, Combinations and the Class Struggle (2021) (0)
The Early History of the Akan States of Ghana . By E. L. R. Meyerowitz. Red Candle Press, London, 1974. Pp. 228, 7 maps. £3.80. (1977) (0)
Works, Workers and the Working Men’s Associations (2021) (0)
Affrifah, Kofi. – The Akyem Factor in Ghana’s History 1700-1875. Accra, Ghana Universities Press (distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., Oxford), 2000, 259 p., index, bibl. (2003) (0)
The Working-Class Community: Wages, Prices and Households (2021) (0)
Asante in the Nineteenth Century: The Structure and Evolution of a Political and Evolution of a Political Order (1977) (0)
GONJA HISTORIOGRAPHY History and Traditions of the Gonja. By J. A. BRAIMAH, H. H. TOMLINSON and OSAFROADU AMANKWATIA. (African Occasional Papers, no. 6) Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1997. Pp. viii+184. $15, paperback (ISBN 1-895176-38-7). (1999) (0)
Asante Craftsmen (1982) (0)
Buganda and the British (1960) (0)
HODGKIN AND AFRICAN NATIONALISMS Thomas Hodgkin: Letters from Africa, 1947–1956. Edited and annotated by ELIZABETH HODGKIN and MICHAEL WOLFERS. London: Haan Associates, 2000. Pp. x+214. £18.95 (ISBN 1-874209-93-6); £11.95, paperback (ISBN 1-874209-88-X). (2002) (0)
Francis Hywel and Smith David. The Fed: A History of the South Wales Miners in the Twentieth Century. London: Lawrence and Wishart. 1980. Pp. 530. £12.95. (1980) (0)
I. One Nation, Many Histories (2020) (0)
The Rising Reviewed (2021) (0)
Wales: The Industrial Nation (2021) (0)
The Arming of the Classes (2021) (0)
Bosman New and Costly (1968) (0)
Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa. By A. W. Lawrence. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. Pp. 390, ill., maps. 63s. (1966) (0)
Landowners, Capitalists and the Growth of Industry (2021) (0)
The English Connection and the Agony of Frost (2021) (0)
Ashanti Government (2018) (0)
The South Wales Rising Through the Eyes of the Press (2021) (0)
All the Queen’s Men: Soldiers, Magistrates and Politicians (2021) (0)
Morgan Kenneth O.. Modern Wales: Politics, Places, and People. Cardiff: University of Wales Press; distributed by Books International, Inc., Herndon, Va. 1995. Pp. xiv, 492. $80.00. ISBN 0-7083-1317-5. (1996) (0)
The State of the Akan and the Akan States: A Discussion in Systèmes étatiques africains. (1982) (0)
Lewin Thomas J.. Asante Before the British: The Prempean Years, 1875-1900. Lawrence: The Regents Press of Kansas. 1978. Pp. 312. $15.50. (1979) (0)
Correspondence of Jacob Dosoo Amenyah of Ada: part one, 1939-1956: part two, 1956-1965 (2006) (0)
The ‘Rise’: The March on Newport (2021) (0)
The Peculiarities of Wales (2021) (0)
Faber Richard. High Road to England. London and Boston: Faber and Faber. 1985. Pp. 216. $29.95. (1986) (0)
THE KINGS OF BUGANDA Kingship and State: The Buganda Dynasty. By CHRISTOPHER WRIGLEY. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xv + 293. £40.00; $64.95 (ISBN 0-521-47370-5). (1997) (0)
Ghana Interpreted (1960) (0)

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