Titlebook: An Economic History of Development in sub-Saharan Africa; Economic Transformat Ellen Hillbom,Erik Green Textbook 2019 The Editor(s) (if app

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,Back in History—1000–1850,the continent, spanning from describing nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to advances civilisations in centralised kingdoms. An important theme is how changes in land, labour and capital interact with changes in institutions and organization of production. With its broad range, the chapter provides a valuable base for the subsequent time periods.

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,Transformation and Administration—1920–1950,tes, i.e. states that because they lacked the means to govern African production instead opted for extracting revenues from taxing trade. This was also a period when spatial and economic inequality within the indigenous population increased and it was primarily the educated and/or commercialised African elites who gained from colonial policies.

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Summarising the Past and Hypothesising About the Future,ole of technological change, outsourcing, industrialisation, export-led growth and the expanding regional and domestic markets could eventually set at least some of the African countries on a pathway to economic development.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-91384-6nd Green provide us with a short introduction to the need to learn more about Africa’s economic history and they present a stylised conceptual model to guide their arguments. They emphasise the need to acknowledge the diversity of the continent, to get away from simplifications and to write history from the perspective of African societies.