Decolonizing with data: The cliometric turn in African economic history
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Keywords
Africa; history; poverty; reversal of fortunes; sub-Saharan; trade; slavery; colonialism; missionaries; independence;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods
- N37 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Africa; Oceania
- O10 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - General
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AFR-2019-04-08 (Africa)
- NEP-DEV-2019-04-08 (Development)
- NEP-EVO-2019-04-08 (Evolutionary Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2019-04-08 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2019-04-08 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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