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Title:
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.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xiii, 526 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subject:
Economic development--Africa--History.
Africa--History.--History.
Africa--Politics and government.
Economic development.
Economic history.
Political science.
Africa.
History.
Other Authors:
Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku, editor of compilation.
Bates, Robert H., editor of compilation.
Nunn, Nathan, editor of compilation.
Robinson, James A., 1960- editor of compilation.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Gender and missionary influence in colonial Africa / Nathan Nunn. 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.
ISBN:
1107691206 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781107691209 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1107041155 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781107041158 (hardback : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)870439176
LCCN:
2014001822
Locations:
PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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