UID:
almahu_9947414920002882
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 526 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139644594 (ebook)
Content:
This edited volume addresses the root causes of Africa's persistent poverty through an investigation of its longue durée history. It interrogates the African past through disease and demography, institutions and governance, African economies and the impact of the export slave trade, colonialism, Africa in the world economy, and culture's influence on accumulation and investment. Several of the chapters take a comparative perspective, placing Africa's developments aside other global patterns. The readership for this book spans from the informed lay reader with an interest in Africa, academics and undergraduate and graduate students, policy makers, and those in the development world.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Africa in world history before ca. 1440 /
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Reversal of fortune and socioeconomic development in the Atlantic world : a comparative examination of West Africa and the Americas, 1400-1850 /
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The impact of malaria on African development over the Longue duree /
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Africa population, 1650-2000 : comparisons and implications of new estimates /
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Redistributive pressures in Sub-Saharan Africa : causes, consequences, and coping strategies /
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Accumulation and conspicuous consumption : the poverty of entrepreneurship in western Nigeria, ca. 1850-1930 /
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Commerce, credit, and mobility in late nineteenth-century gold coast: changing dynamics in Euro-African trade /
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The textile industry of eastern Africa in the Longue duree /
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Explaining and evaluating the cash crop revolution in the "peasant" colonies of tropical Africa, ca. 1890-ca.1930 : beyond "vent-for-surplus" /
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Re-inventing the wheel : the economic benefits of wheeled transportation in early colonial British West Africa /
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Mbanza Kongo/São Salvador : culture and the transformation of an African city, 1491 to 1670s /
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The fragile revolution : rethinking war and development in Africa's violent nineteenth century /
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The imperial peace /
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Dahomey in the world : Dahomean rulers and European demands, 1726-1894 /
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The Transatlantic slave trade and the evolution of political authority in West Africa /
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Gender and missionary influence in colonial Africa /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781107041158
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139644594
