Africa's development in historical perspective [Texte imprimé] / edited by Emmanuel Akyeampong, Robert H. Bates, Nathan Nunn... [et al.]

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Africa in history / 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 : culture, entrepreneurialism, and development / 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 -- Changing dynamics of entrepreneurship in 19th century Africa / 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, c. 1890-c.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