The long-term effects of Africa's slave trades

N Nunn - The Quarterly journal of economics, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore
this question, I use data from shipping records and historical documents reporting slave …

Historical legacies: A model linking Africa's past to its current underdevelopment

N Nunn - Journal of development economics, 2007 - Elsevier
Recent studies have found evidence linking Africa's current under-development to colonial
rule and the slave trade. Given that these events ended long ago, why do they continue to …

Concepts of time and approaches to analogical reasoning in historical perspective

AB Stahl - American antiquity, 1993 - cambridge.org
Analogy is fundamentally important to archaeological inquiry, yet archaeologists remain
profoundly ambivalent about its use. In this paper I address issues of how we develop and …

[图书][B] A history of African societies to 1870

E Isichei - 1997 - books.google.com
This comprehensive and detailed exploration of the African past, from prehistory to
approximately 1870, is intended to provide a fully up-to-date complement to the Cambridge …

Conjuring the modern in Africa: durability and rupture in histories of public healing between the Great Lakes of East Africa

DL Schoenbrun - The American Historical Review, 2006 - academic.oup.com
THE VALUABLE EMPHASIS ON MODERNITY in colonial and postcolonial African studies
has profoundly divided precolonial African history from what comes after. But the depth and …

[图书][B] Afro-Catholic festivals in the Americas: performance, representation, and the making of Black Atlantic tradition

C Fromont - 2019 - books.google.com
This volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and
free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian-derived celebrations as …

New perspectives on the political economy of Great Zimbabwe

S Chirikure - Journal of Archaeological Research, 2020 - Springer
This review draws from old and new archaeological data and takes interpretive flavor from
indigenous African concepts to demonstrate that, within a context of local and external …

[图书][B] The Struggle against the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade,”

JE Inikori - 2003 - books.google.com
The first recorded shipment of captives from western Africa over the Atlantic by Europeans
occurred in 1441 (Blake 1977, 5). These were victims of raids by the Portuguese in the small …

[PDF][PDF] The case for colonialism: A response to my critics

B Gilley - Academic Questions, 2021 - pdx.edu
Editor's Note: NAS board member Bruce Gilley's article,“The Case for Colonialism,” was
republished in Academic Questions in the summer of 2018 after its original publisher, the …

[PDF][PDF] Archaeology and anthropology–brothers in arms?

F Fahlander - Material culture and other things, 2004 - academia.edu
The relationship between the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology has been
repeatedly debated over the years. Some scholars express a somewhat patronising attitude …