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Economic History and Development Studies: ECHS704 Readings

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1. Samir Amin. (1972). “Underdevelopment and Dependency in Black Africa – Origins and contemporary Forms”. Journal of Modern Africa Studies X (4), 503-524.

2. Bundy, C. (1972). “The emergence and Decline of a South African Peasantry”, African Affairs 71.

 

3.Bonner, Philip. "African Urbanization on the Rand between the 1930s and 1960s: Its Social Character and Political Consequences." Journal of Southern African Studies 21 (1995): 115-29.  https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2637334.pdf

4.Willis, Justin, Gabrielle Lynch, and Nic Cheeseman. “Voting, Nationhood, and Citizenship in Late-Colonial Africa.” The Historical Journal 61 (2018): 1113-1135. http://dro.dur.ac.uk/24586/1/24586.pdf

5.Brennan, James. “Lowering the Sultan's Flag: sovereignty and decolonization in coastal Kenya.”Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 (2008): 831-861https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27563710.pdf

6. Keese, Alexander. "First Lessons in Neo-Colonialism: The Personalisation of Relations between African Politicians and French Officials in sub-Saharan Africa, 1956-66." Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 35 (2007): 593-613. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03086530701667559

7. Lonsdale, John. "Mau Maus of the Mind: Making Mau Mau and Remaking Kenya." Journal of African History 31 (1990): 393-421. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/182877.pdf

8. Bayart, Jean-François. "Africa in the World: a History of Extroversion." African Affairs 99 (1999): 217-26. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/723809.pdf

9. Beinart, William. "Soil Erosion, Conervationism and Ideas about Development: A Southern African Exploration, 1900-1960." Journal of Southern African Studies 11 (1984): 51-83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2636546.pdf

10. Frankema, Ewout, and Marlous van Waijenburg. “Africa rising? A historical perspective.”African Affairs 117, 469 (October 2018): 543–68. https://watermark.silverchair.com/ady022.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAArMwggKvBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggKgMIICnAIBADCCApUGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMA2m9bmLtAfLgxpQIAgEQgIICZidGBMszKdeOqP5X-ZcWnJsVaFTyklsMKYExuxY67wNp9x6Mhz1CcD0rZXwptDSvOzrP3Dg_KqxcFjreSjBbVawWpyHoHtvg9gyq6Iw1b7De6RnMQ0xxbSWORP1LcJwFof8-ZdoojKt96WwOrOnCqChHBWuHxBE7pDf7aS3bZYWpUbrEO6IFD5fl5pna_PAMdNRsBiHMB0s6x32l5um-yU27JeLzKLnXng5SGtRi26ZZ1iItbReH7jTAuloNWWiMDPLQ9i4O694mmLkC8aH9QjOQ1KTAHDGx0SybDBrMcjsDOnc6-iE8ICBt5PEL3pQP1agF1JhK33J1D9YDJo5LGFSO-KfoSe79D-Tl3c65Ardj6SnwTGT6Uq-6QAcJWb74e2yvYpbUIJlQtrq3EsoF1YmRv-dbegzZPPnyc0dqA380BOjv70VOnPEP3NYJtsaUWs87pCINyxFiL9mv9DTvipabfcJRqwbc0NuwssfnyRsxzP59OY9BOi0E8IorpWCLUTT61h_FCrTQmJLzp8MCQ6KaWk8IFav2u-eGrk83RYlqJlgAohv6gPviPJRmvwy2a5CGij3P45MZc1R8GPx6tqVVMxGPZTegTV2AwaIOHkHSDLPytPh9eVfRge3890--vGhdo6f5b-WjvaD0fHlyH_ToC6ldEzY5aK8vCuxO1JXLe1ib5jdRmgs97dQa3kdOsvPHXRSacwwubDDzXfWNTcas_Z0elThvc8wQFruJ0FUMJHRcax3GCkqJFC3MxgDSCCcaFRBiztGX2jCkS6OJPTe0YLs4lejAAa9p4C0AdO6oxSEikPgE

11. Jerven, Morten. "African Economic Growth Recurring: An Economic History Perspective on African Growth Episodes, 1690-2010." Economic History of Developing Regions 25 (2010):127-54. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/20780389.2010.527685

 

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