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Joachim Östlund, Saltets pris
- 2015
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Ingår i: Historisk Tidskrift. - 0345-469X. ; :3, s. 551-552
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Konsumenter och slaveri
- 2011
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Ingår i: Svenska Historikermötet 2011: Koloniala drömmar och merkantilistisk praktik. Svenskt 1700-tal i Medelhavet och på Atlanten..
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Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold Coast
- 2016
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world today. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the regional economy before colonization. Using records from the English Royal Africa Company, alongside contemporary published accounts, Rönnbäck is able to reconstruct the material wealth and living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area. He explores the racial bias that permeated the colonists’ accounts and how the ‘lazy African’ stereotype was used to justify slavery. The study will enrich our understanding of long term West African economic development and the issues that still exist today.
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Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast
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Ingår i: World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, july 2012.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Much recent research in economic history has been devoted to the issue of comparing living standards more or less globally for the period prior to the industrial revolution. In these comparisons, the African continent has largely been left out, perhaps primarily due to a lack of quantitative data from the pre-colonial era. In this paper, I attempt to estimate quantitatively the living standards for a small share of the population in West Africa in pre-colonial times, namely people working at the British Royal African Company forts during the 18th century. The sample includes labourers of African origin, both skilled and unskilled. The people working for the RAC are by no means statistically representative of the population in the region in general. Since the sample includes free labourers, who presumably could have chosen not to work for the RAC, it might however enlighten us about the opportunities that working for the RAC represented. This could potentially be used to study the development of living standards in West Africa during the 18th century, as well as provide a benchmark of living standards for further studies on the economic development in later periods.
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Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast: a quantitative estimate of African laborers’ welfare ratios
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Ingår i: European Review of Economic History. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1361-4916 .- 1474-0044. ; 18:2, s. 185-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is an attempt to estimate living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast (in current-day Ghana) quantitatively, looking at the welfare ratios of indigenous laborers – in particular canoemen – working for the British Royal African Company in the early eighteenth century. This is the first time such a study has been undertaken for an indigenous population in any part and period of pre-colonial Africa. The data indicates that living standards were at least on a par with those in many other parts of the world, including large parts of Asia and Southern and Eastern Europe. No large gap in material affluence between the Gold Coast of West Africa and most of the rest of the world seems to have developed by this time.
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New and old peripheries - Britain, the Baltic and the Americas in the Great Divergence
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Ingår i: Journal of Global History. - 1740-0228. ; 5:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In his seminal book The Great Divergence, Kenneth Pomeranz has argued that access to inputs from the vast acreages available in the Americas was crucial for the industrial revolution in Britain. But could no other regions of the world have provided the inputs in demand? Recent research claims that this could have been the case. This paper takes that research one step further by studying Britain’s trade with an old and important peripheral trading-partner, the Baltic, contrasting this to the British trade with America. This paper finds that production for export was not necessarily stagnating in the Baltic, as Pomeranz has claimed. Qualitative aspects of the factor endowment of land did however not enable the production of specific raw materials such as cotton, to meet the increasing demand. Thus, the decreasing role of the Baltic ought to a large extent be attributed to the patterns of British industrialization, and the demand it created for specific raw materials, rather than internal, institutional constraints in the Baltic region.
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- Rönnbäck, Klas, 1974, et al.
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Numeracy and the legacy of slavery Age-heaping in the Danish West Indies before and after emancipation from slavery, 1780s-1880s
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to acquire, and how this changed following emancipation, is not well known. We study quantitatively how a legacy of slavery impacted upon the development of basic numeracy skills. Our results show that numeracy skills started to improve in the population under study well before emancipation from slavery. We also show that the formal public and private schooling seems to have played a marginal role in this process. We therefore conclude that much of this learning was acquired in informal ways.
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