University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: E.g., Topic 10: Scramble for Africa
READING: Griffiths. I The Scramble for Africa: Inherited Political Boundaries
READING GROUP: Group Lusaka
THESIS: The persistence of colonial boundaries and the political geography of Africa has been an
impedimen
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Topic 15: Decolonization: Building new national economies
READING: Mkandawire, T. (2001) Thinking about developmental states in Africa
READING GROUP: Kinshasa
THESIS: The article asserts that there are two main components to the development state,
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Topic 15 Decolinisation ; Building new national economies
READING: Cooper, F. (2002) Africa since 1940: The Past of the Present (available as an e-book) Pp.
85-105 (Interlude + first half of chapter 5, development and disappointment)
READING GROUP:
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Topic 11
READING: Huillery, E. (2009), 'History matters: the long term impact of colonial public
investments in French West Africa', American Economic Journal Applied Economics,
1: 176-215
READING GROUP: Group Dakar
THESIS:
The paper gives evidenc
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Topic 10: Scramble for Africa
READING: Smugglers, Secessionists and Loyal Citizens on the Ghana-Togo Frontier, by Paul
Nugent. Oxford: James Currey and Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2002. xiv + 302 pp.
READING GROUP: Group Dakar
THESIS:
Nugen
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Colonialism: the 'Scramble' for Africa
READING: Green, E (2012) On the size and shape of African state from International Studies
Quarterly
READING GROUP: Group Kinshasa
THESIS: Green argues against the belief that African borders are arbitrary in
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Colonial institutions and economic development: Building colonial states
READING: Gardner. Chapter 3: Fiscal Foundations of the African Colonial State. Taxing
colonial Africa.
READING GROUP: Group Lusaka
THESIS: Historians have often view colonial
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: 11: Colonial institutions and economic development (1): Building colonial states
READING: Gardner, L. (2012). Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism.
Chapter 3: 'Fiscal Foundation of the African Colonial State'.
READIN
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: E.g., Topic 10: Scramble for Africa
READING: Ieuan Griffiths (1986), The Scramble for Africa: inherited Political Boundaries
READING GROUP: Group Accra
THESIS:
MAIN ARGUMENTS:
The political boundaries of modern Africa emerged 30 years after the Ber
University of London The London School of Economics and Political Science
Africa 1500-2000
ECONOMIC H EH211
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Fall 2016
TOPIC: Colonial institutions and economic development: Building colonial states
READING: Coping with the Contradictions: The Development of the Colonial State in Kenya, 18951914 by John Lonsdale and Bruce Berman
READING GROUP: Group Kinshasa
THESIS:
Berma
