Chapter 1: On writing Africa’s economic history -- Chapter 2: Research on Africa’s history and development – a review -- Chapter 3: Back in history, 1000-1850 -- Chapter 4: Economic and political integration, 1850-1920 -- Chapter 5: Transformation and administration, 1920-1950 -- Chapter...

This study investigates the role of political as well as economic institutions, factor endowments and geography as main drivers of change in Botswana's long‐term economic development, from 1850 to the present. The claim that we need to embrace multi‐causal explanations giving equal...

The field of African economic history is in resurgence. This paper reviews recent and on-going research contributions and notes strengths in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety. In these strengths there is also a challenge: different methodological approaches may also...

1. Agricultural transformation, land ownership, and markets in inland Spain : the case of southern Navarre, 1600-1935 / Jose Miguel Lana-Berasain -- 2. Are institutions the whole story? frontier expansion, land quality and ownership rights in the River Plate, 1850-1920 / Henry Willebald -- 3....