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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
Fenske, James - 2009
, slavery, and polygyny. I then use crosssectional data on pre-colonial African societies to demonstrate that, consistent with … the model, the existence of land rights, slavery, and polygyny occurred in those parts of Africa that were the most …
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Slavery, racial inequality, and education : historical slavery may be a driver of human capital and its unequal racial distribution, with implications for education and income ineq...
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
Latin America up until the 19th century. However, the influence of slavery differs significantly across countries and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430223
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
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Documenting, monetising and taxing Brazilian slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Rodrigues, Lúcia Lima; Craig, Russell James; Schmidt, Paulo - In: Accounting history review 25 (2015) 1, pp. 43-67
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Europe's long history of extracting African renewable energy : contexts for African scientists, technologists, innovators and policy-makers
Showers, Kate B. - In: African journal of science, technology, innovation & … 6 (2014) 3/4, pp. 301-313
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Coercion, conflict, and commodities
Cilliers, Jacobus - 2013
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Does land abundance explain African institutions?
Fenske, James - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 123 (2013) 573, pp. 1363-1390
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Sweet business : quantifying the value added in the British colonial sugar trade in the 18th century
Rönnbäck, Klas - In: Revista de historia económica 32 (2014) 2, pp. 223-245
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The hidden history of Benjamin Montgomery : slave, manager, and accountant
Gates, Sandra; Burke, Megan; Humphreys, John - In: Accounting history : journal of the Accounting History … 27 (2022) 1, pp. 24-40
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18th-century plantation slavery, capitalism and the most precious colony in the world
Yazdani, Kaveh - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 108 (2021) 4, pp. 457-503
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