African Economic History Network (AEHN)
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The African Economic History Network is an initiative intended to foster communication, collaboration and research as well as teaching among scholars.
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Great to chat with Prof. Eric Schneider Eric Schneider about his super interesting work on heights and what we can learn from studying them with respect to economic history! Very enjoyable chat! buzzsprout.com/1065133/149746…
LEAP's Edward Kerby & co-authors use computational methods to uncover new perspectives Kerby, E., Moradi, A., and Odendaal, H., 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?', The Economic History Review, (2024), pp. 1-38. doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13…
Attention‼️‼️#IHE_EHR will organize a #FastTrack session at the conference of the AEHE in Las Palmas de GC on 21-24 Jan. 2025 📩 An extended abstract & a short CV 🗓️ May 31, 2024 👥Orgs.: Daniel Gallardo Vanesa Abarca Enrique Jorge-Sotelo Sara Torregrosa More information👇🏻👇🏻
📢New AEHN WP No. 74 by Felix Meier zu Selhausen & Jacob Weisdorf on "Gender Inequality and the Colonial Economy: Evidence from Marriage Registers in Urban British Africa" ⛪️🌍🤵🏿👰🏿 👇🏿 aehnetwork.org/working-papers…
Another piece of good news! The Editorial Board of Industrial History Review is thrilled to inform you that according to the 2023 Scopus edition, our CiteScore has increased by 75% relative to 2022! We are now in the 73rd percentile in HISTORY! 👇
Now on Early View: 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?' By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. Edward Kerby Alexander Moradi Hanjo Odendaal Stellenbosch University Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past unibz Bureau for Economic Research (BER) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…
🚀 Exciting news! Our first paper using the AfricanTimeTraveller Database is out in the Economic History Review. Here’s a thread of our findings: 🧵 Joint with Edward Kerby and Hanjo Odendaal onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11… timetraveller.voyage
📙New AEHN Working Paper No. 77 by Ann Carlos, Erik Green, Calumet Links & Angela Redish Lund University Stellenbosch University Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past on: "Early-Modern Globalization and the Extent of Indigenous Agency: Trade, Commodities, and Ecology" 🔻 aehnetwork.org/working-papers…
Did colonial policies and missionary work escalate gender gaps in Africa? CAGE Research Associates Felix Meier zu Selhausen and Jacob Weisdorf analyse Anglican marriage registers to investigate the scale of gender inequality in colonial Africa. #EconomicHistory buff.ly/4cmOHKZ
New Working Paper: "Colonialism on the Cheap: The French Empire 1830-1962”, w Cogneau Denis, Elise HUILLERY & Mesplé-Somps Sandrine. French colonies did not cost French taxpayers much. Most of the cost was for the military, especially for the independence wars shs.hal.science/halshs-0459860…🧵
New AEHN Working Paper No. 78 by Cogneau Denis Yannick Dupraz Elise HUILLERY Mesplé-Somps Sandrine on: "Colonialism on the Cheap: French Empire 1830-1962" 💰🌍🇫🇷🪖 asking: How much did France pay for its colonial empire? Did colonies benefit from large transfers? aehnetwork.org/working-papers…
New Book Summary on AEHN's Frontiers in Africa Economic History by Victor Gwande on: "The Manufacturing Industry in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979" 🇿🇼🏭 The Manufacturing Industry in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979 – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)
Less than a month until the start of the AEHN Annual Meeting of 2024 🌍 at Sapienza Università di Roma 26-27 September 🇮🇹 !
The Industrial History Review is now open access! Easier than ever to read its articles, including the ones previously embargoed. Some news on the next issue will come soon 😌
