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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974, et al.
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Aednan och Bolaget: ett kolonialt perspektiv på gruvbrytning i Sápmi vid 1900-talets början : Aednan and the Company: A Colonial Perspective on Mining in Sapmi in the Early Twentieth Century
- 2020
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X. ; 140:3, s. 476-497
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite a growing international interest in the colonial history of indigenous people in general, and an emerging field of Sami-related history in Sweden in particular, the impact on the field of Swedish economic history is still very limited. This is somewhat paradoxical, given that the dominating narrative on the modernization of the Swedish economy during the 19th and 20th century still rests heavily on the exploitation of natural resources located in Sápmí. In this article we pose the question: to what extent can a colonial perspective further our understanding of the exploitation of mineral deposits in the northern part of Sweden? To pursue such an analysis, we specifically address the development of the iron ore mine in Kiruna during the late 19th and early 20th century. We use a combination of sources (press, government investigations and literature) to probe into the relationships between on the one hand the Sami people and on the other hand the private and public interests that were formed in the wake of the development of a mine, which in just a few years developed into the largest mine in Sweden and the dominating stock on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. We show that theoretical approaches developed in the tradition of colonial history can offer productive modes of analysis when it comes to further our understanding of the structural discrimination of the Sami people. We argue that these theoretical approaches can open up important new avenues for scholars in economic history to search for new sources or revisit old ones with new questions about the grand narrative of how the modernization of Sweden came about.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974, et al.
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African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth century
- 2019
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Ingår i: Economic history review. - : Wiley. - 0013-0117. ; 72:1, s. 209-232
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of agriculture has been central in Africa’s long-term economic development. Previous research has argued that low productivity of African economies has posed significant challenges in African efforts to produce an agricultural surplus or develop commercial agriculture. Low agricultural productivity has also served as a key explanation for the transatlantic slave trade, on the basis that it was more profitable to export humans overseas than to grow and export produce. The field has however suffered from a lack of comparable empirical evidence. This paper contributes to this field by presenting quantitative data on historical land- and labour productivity in Africa, from a case study of the agricultural productivity in Senegambia in the early nineteenth century. Focusing on five key crops, our results suggest that both land- and labour productivity was lower in Senegambia than it was in all other parts of the world for which we have found comparable data. We thus lend support to claims that stress ecological factors as one of the main determinants of Africa’s historical development.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974, et al.
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All that glitters is not gold: The return on British investments in South Africa, 1869-1969
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics. - 0379-6205. ; 42:2, s. 61-79
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article studies the return on British investments in South Africa during the period 1869 to 1969. The study is based on sample of 453 companies, operating within the region of current-day South Africa, and whose stocks were traded on the London Stock Exchange. Our analysis shows that the return on South African investments was substantially lower than what some previous research in the field has claimed. The results therefore challenge the received wisdom that investments in South Africa were particularly profitable to the investors.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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"Alltid något att visa upp för nationens ögon" - Franska tomten och den svenska jakten på kolonier
- 2007
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Ingår i: Ord & Bild. - 0030-4492. ; :3-4, s. 63-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I centrala Göteborg kan man än idag finna ett kvarter vid namn Franska tomten. Bakom namnet ligger en mer än 200 år gammal och av de flesta bortglömd historia. I Göteborgs stadsmuseums stora verk om stadskärnans historik finns bara en kort mening om att det här under 1700-talets slut fanns särskilda magasin för franska handelsvaror. De franska varumagasinen har dock en längre historia, som knyter an till Europas kolonisering av Amerika.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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An early-modern consumer revolution in the Baltic?
- 2010
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of History. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0346-8755 .- 1502-7716. ; 35:2, s. 177-197
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The European consumer revolution has gained increasing attention in recent years. This paper goes beyond the previous scholarly focus upon Western Europe in general, and Britain in particular, by studying the consumer revolution in the Baltic region in general, and Denmark and Sweden in particular. Previous research has underestimated the quantities of ‘new luxuries’ imported into the Baltic region. Disaggregating the region, the empirical evidence shows that the Danish population consumed approximately as much of for example sugar as the British did, already by the late 18th century. The paper argues that this to a large extent can be attributed to the fact that real wages in Denmark were comparatively high at the time, even approaching the levels paid to workers in high-wage countries in north-western Europe. The high wages, together with a number of other factors, thus enabled an early consumer revolution at least in this part of the Baltic.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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An early-modern consumer revolution in the Baltic?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Consumption, power and culture in the early modern Atlantic world, June 4-5, 2009, Åbo Akademi, Finland.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The European consumer revolution has gained increasing attention in recent years. This paper goes beyond the previous scholarly focus upon Western Europe in general, and Britain in particular, by studying the consumer revolution in the Baltic region in general, and Denmark and Sweden in particular. Previous research has underestimated the quantities of ‘new luxuries’ imported into the Baltic region. Disaggregating the region, the empirical evidence shows that the Danish population consumed approximately as much of for example sugar as the British did, already by the late 18th century. The paper argues that this to a large extent can be attributed to the fact that real wages in Denmark were comparatively high at the time, even approaching the levels paid to workers in high-wage countries in north-western Europe. The high wages, together with a number of other factors, thus enabled an early consumer revolution at least in this part of the Baltic.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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An end and a new beginning: disintegration of inter-continental commodity markets during the Revolutionary Era, 1770s to 1820s
- 2012
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Ingår i: Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte. - 1436-6371. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The outbreak of the American, and later also the French, Revolution, would have significant economic repercussions around the world. This article studies the issue of inter-continental market disintegration during the Revolutionary Era quantitatively. The paper finds that the empirical evidence shows a significant increase in price dispersion on inter-continental trade routes during the period. After the end of the revolutionary wars, prices rapidly converged back to pre-war levels. The Revolutionary Era thus constituted the end of an era and the beginning of a new not only politically, but also for inter-continental trade. The effects were however asymmetrical, depending on the specific trade routes and countries importing the goods.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974
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Atlantic Early-Modern Migrations and Economic Globalization
- 2013
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 9781444351071
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This essay will focus on the main causes of the voluntary and involuntary transatlantic migration during the early-modern era, the patterns of the migration, as well as the consequences it had.
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