Ralph A Austen

Datos Biográficos

ID94951
NOMBRERalph A Austen
NOMBRESRalph A
APELLIDOAusten
FIRMAAUSTEN R A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Chicago
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS137
TOTAL DE CITAS607
TOTAL COMO AUTOR137
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1963
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2022
ÍNDICE H12

  • Mythic Transformation and Historical Continuity

    Ralph A AustenCHAPTERAfrican Crossroads2022

  • Outsourcing Empire

    Ralph A Austen, Ralph AustenARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2022

  • Indigenous Agents of Colonial Rule in Africa and India

    Ralph A AustenCHAPTERCooperation and Empire2017

  • Monsters of Protocolonial Economic Enterprise

    Ralph A AustenARTICLECritical Historical Studies2017Referencias: 22

    This article examines the Dutch and English East India companies and the mainly British and French Caribbean slave plantations during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as institutions embodying features of both “premodern” and “postmodern” economies. Because they endured and produced profits over long periods of time, neither of these institutions can be dismissed as “primitive accumulation.” The East India companies were state-licensed mo…

  • Beyond Timbuktu

    Ralph A AustenARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2017Referencias: 2

    The subject of this book is broader—and more interdisciplinary—than its title suggests. For the precolonial era, Kane is largely concerned with intellectual history in the narrow sense of the written ideas of West African Muslim scholars in Timbuktu and elsewhere (especially the Western Sahara and Senegal), since such texts are the main evidence available for this period. However, even in this section, he provides considerable information about t…

  • Tropical Africa in the Global Economy

    Ralph A AustenCHAPTEROxford Research Encyclopedia of…2016Citada por: 2

    Tropical Africa has been in communication with the global economy since at least the last centuries bce through either land travel across the Sahara to the Mediterranean or navigation along the Indian Ocean coast. Despite recent archaeological research, not too much is known about this earliest trade. Only after Islam was firmly established in North Africa and the Indian Ocean do we have evidence of significant trade (slaves, gold, and ivory) and…

  • Regional study

    Open AccessRalph A Austen, Ralph AustenCHAPTERCambridge World History2015

    The written Chinese language played a critical role in shaping the emergence of a distinctively East Asian cultural zone. The development of writing in Bronze Age China is thus fundamental to both Chinese and East Asian civilization more broadly. Although tantalizing examples of markings that seem to resemble writing have been discovered from earlier periods, the first unmistakable examples of written language in China appear on the 'oracle bones…

  • Kōjin Karatani. The Structure of World History

    Ralph A AustenARTICLEThe American Historical Review2015

    “Finally, to avoid any misunderstandings,” Kōjin Karatani states in the introduction to this book, “let me make one last observation. I am not trying to write here the sort of world history that is ordinarily taken up by historians. What I am aiming at is a transcendental critique of the relations between the various basic modes of exchange” (28). The substantive chapters that follow are not, by the “ordinary” standards of historical scholarship,…

  • Making War in Côte d'Ivoire by Mike McGovern

    Open AccessRalph A Austen, Ralph AustenARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2013

  • Colonialism from the Middle

    Open AccessRalph A AustenARTICLEHistory in Africa2011Citada por: 6Referencias: 12

    In a review of my first published book one of the founding figures of african historical studies suggested that instead of giving so much attention to European colonial administrators and African traditional chiefs I should have focused upon “the clerks, the schoolmasters and the evangelists, who were to take the lead when indirect rule had failed.” The terms in which this admonition was expressed implies a confidence in the nationalist project o…

  • Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s Life and Work Reconsidered

    Open AccessRalph A Austen, Benjamin F SoaresARTICLEIslamic Africa2010Citada por: 1

  • The Medium of “Tradition”

    Open AccessRalph A AustenARTICLEIslamic Africa2010

    In his efforts to communicate his research on African “tradition”—more specifically oral texts—Hampâté Bâ was faced with a choice of languages and alphabets. Much of his work appeared only in French, the language of his main formal education and administrative training. In collaboration with several French colonial scholar-administrators (Henri Gaden, Colonel R. Figaret, and Gilbert Vieillard) Hampâté Bâ eventually developed a system for writing …

  • Viewing African Cinema in the Twenty-First Century

    Mahir Şaul, Mahir Süaul et al.BOOKViewing African cinema in the…2010

    African cinema in the 1960s originated mainly from Francophone countries. It resembled the art cinema of contemporary Europe and relied on support from the French film industry and the French state. Beginning in1969 the biennial Festival panafricain du cin\u00e9ma et de la t\u00e9l\u00e9vision de Ouagadougou (FESPACO), held in Burkina Faso, became the major showcase for these films. But since the early 1990s, a new phenomenon has come to dominate…

  • Imperial Reach Versus Institutional Grasp

    Ralph A Austen, Ralph AustenARTICLEJournal of Early Modern History2009Citada por: 2

    The history of five states in the African West and Central Sudan—Songhay, Borno, Segu, Samory and the Sokoto Caliphate—is analyzed for a period from ca. 1500 to ca. 1900. Recent scholarship has stressed the non-territorial nature of these “states without maps”, an issue that needs to be dealt in a more nuanced manner, given the efforts by local regimes to control both multiple urban centers of commerce and rural zones of agricultural production a…

  • Slavery and the Birth of an African City

    Ralph A Austen, R AustenARTICLEAfrican Affairs2009

    In this impressive and graciously written work Kristin Mann makes a major contribution to our understanding of the transition from slave trading to ‘legitimate commerce’ (mainly palm product exports) on the nineteenth-century West African coast. Her case study, Lagos, is somewhat exceptional because it was occupied and then formally annexed by Britain between 1851 and 1861. These conditions are taken into account by Mann but, as she points out, t…

  • Who was Wangrin and Why Does it Matter? Colonial History "from the Middle" and its Self-Representation

    Ralph A AustenARTICLEMande Studies2007Referencias: 2

    Who was Wangrin and Why Does it Matter? Colonial History "from the Middle" and its Self-Representation Ralph A. Austen Thed'unisfirsttheinterprètequestionheroofaposedafricainbook,inLmypublished'étrangetitlehasdestininasimple1973deWangrinbyliteralAmadouanswer:ou,LesHampâtéWangrinroueriesBâ istheheroofabook,L'étrangedestindeWangrinou,Lesroueries d'uninterprèteafricain,publishedin1973byAmadouHampâtéBâ (1973,1999).Butiftheclearlyfictionalname"Wangrin…

  • Africa and globalization

    Open AccessRalph A AustenARTICLEJournal of Global History2006

    Tropical Africa has not fared well either in the contemporary world order or in the globalization literature that has accompanied it. Under such labels as ‘black hole’ ‘blank space’ and ‘the hopeless continent’, this part of the world seems hardly worthy of attention in the study of the connections and energies that define the twenty-first century

  • The Economic Value of British Colonial Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Open AccessRalph A Austen, Woodruff D SmithARTICLEHistory Compass2006Referencias: 16

  • The Economic Value of British Colonial Empire in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

    Open AccessRalph A Austen, Woodruff D SmithARTICLEHistory Compass2005Referencias: 14

    This article reviews recent research on aspects of the long‐standing debate among historians over the question of whether or not, on the whole, colonial expansion before 1800 contributed substantially to British economic development and industrialization. After narrowing the meaning of “colonial” to focus on coercion as its defining characteristic, we conclude that analyses based on the standard quantitative measures of economic development have …

  • The Politics of Storytelling

    Ralph A Austen, Ralph Austen et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2004

  • Rereading Camara Laye

    Ralph A Austen, Ralph Austen et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2003Citada por: 3

  • History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement

    Ralph A Austen, Pier M LarsonARTICLEAfrican Economic History2002

  • Islam's Black Slaves

    Ralph A Austen, Ronald SegalARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002

  • Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers

    Andreas Eckert, Ralph A Austen et al.ARTICLEAfrica2001

    Ralph A. Austen and Jonathan Derrick, Middlemen of the Cameroons Rivers: the Duala and their hinterland, c. 1600-c. 1960. African Studies 96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 264 pp., £40.00, ISBN 0 521 56228 7 hard covers, £14.95, ISBN 0 521 56664 9 paperback. - Volume 71 Issue 3

  • Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue

    Ralph A Austen, Woodruff D SmithReferencias: 13

    The only group of clear gainers from the British trans-Atlantic slave trade, and even those gains were small, were the European consumers of sugar and tobacco and other plantation crops. They were given the chance to purchase dental decay and lung cancer at somewhat lower prices than would have been the case without the slave trade. [Thomas and Bean 1974: 914] Although the quotation above represents a radical departure from earlier economic asses…