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Africa's development in historical perspective / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Harvard University, Robert H. Bates, Harvard University, Nathan Nunn, Harvard University, James Robinson, Harvard University.
Lippincott Library HC800 .A57255 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic development--Africa--History.
- Economic development.
- Economic conditions.
- History.
- Africa--Economic conditions--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- Economic history.
- Political science.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 526 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Africa in world history before ca. 1440 / Christopher Ehret
- Reversal of fortune and socioeconomic development in the Atlantic world : a comparative examination of West Africa and the Americas, 1400-1850 / Joseph Inikori
- The impact of malaria on African development over the Longue duree / David N. Weil
- Africa population, 1650-2000 : comparisons and implications of new estimates / Patrick Manning
- Redistributive pressures in Sub-Saharan Africa : causes, consequences, and coping strategies / Jean-Philippe Platteau
- Accumulation and conspicuous consumption : the poverty of entrepreneurship in western Nigeria, ca. 1850-1930 / Ayodeji Olukoju
- Commerce, credit, and mobility in late nineteenth-century gold coast: changing dynamics in Euro-African trade / Emmanuel Akyeampong
- The textile industry of eastern Africa in the Longue duree / William Gervase Clarence-Smith
- Explaining and evaluating the cash crop revolution in the "peasant" colonies of tropical Africa, ca. 1890-ca.1930 : beyond "vent-for-surplus" / Gareth Austin
- Re-inventing the wheel : the economic benefits of wheeled transportation in early colonial British West Africa / Isaias Chaves, Stanley L. Engerman, and James A. Robinson
- Mbanza Kongo/São Salvador : culture and the transformation of an African city, 1491 to 1670s / Linda Heywood
- The fragile revolution : rethinking war and development in Africa's violent nineteenth century / Richard Reid
- The imperial peace / Robert Bates
- Dahomey in the world : Dahomean rulers and European demands, 1726-1894 / John Thornton
- The Transatlantic slave trade and the evolution of political authority in West Africa / Warren C. Whatley
- Gender and missionary influence in colonial Africa / Nathan Nunn.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1107691206
- 9781107041158
- 1107041155
- 9781107691209
- OCLC:
- 870439176
- Publisher Number:
- 99961452851
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