Richard G Saunders

Biographic Data

ID1744017
NAMERichard G Saunders
GIVEN NAMESRichard G
FAMILY NAMESaunders
SIGNATURESAUNDERS R G
AFFILIATIONSYork University, Toronto
ORCID0009-0008-7746-618X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS31
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1937
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX4

  • The Return of Resource Nationalism to Southern Africa - Introduction

    Alexander Caramento, Richard G Saunders et al.ARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2023Cited by: 9References: 2

  • Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe: Alternative Visions and Policy Realities

    Richard G Saunders, Lyman Mlambo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2023

    A new wave of resource nationalism washed through southern Africa in the 2000s, driven by rising popular demand for greater local participation in the mining sector value chain, more equitable redistribution of benefits from extractives and strengthened transparency and accountability on the part of local states and foreign-owned mining companies. In the context of heightened political contestation and improved commodity prices, a succession of p…

  • Policy as Performance: Indigenisation and Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe in the 2000s

    Richard G SaundersARTICLEJournal of Southern African Studies2023

    In 2008, in the midst of a deepening political-economic crisis, Zimbabwe’s ZANU(PF) government introduced ‘Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment’ as a policy framework to guide the domestication of foreign firms then dominating the formal economy. At the same time, debates around resource nationalism were emerging in the country’s extractives sector, which was booming in the wake of a global surge in minerals prices. The intersection of indigen…

  • An extractive developmental state in Southern Africa? The cases of Zambia and Zimbabwe

    Richard G Saunders, Richard Saunders et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly2018Cited by: 5References: 37

    In recent years, an upturn in international commodity markets and the poor development performance of mineral rich African countries have catalysed the resurgence of debate and policy initiatives focused on extractivist models of growth in southern Africa. Beginning with debates on the ‘resource curse’, the East Asian developmental state and ‘developmental patrimonialism’, we extend the discussion to consider key unique challenges in contemporary…

  • The Civil War Years in Utah: The Kingdom of God and the Territory that Did Not Fight. By John Gary Maxwell

    Richard G Saunders, Richard SaundersARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly2017

    By any measure, the 1860s were a “complicated, divisive, conflict-laden history” (p. xvii), in Utah Territory no less than the rest of the country. There the war years were an impossible time characterized by immoveable objects and irresistible forces, interactions fueled by suspicion, insecurity, purple rhetoric, and barely disguised ambition on every side. By assembling a broader and more careful grasp of fact the author seeks to correct faith-…

  • American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century by Robert E. Gallamore and John R. Meyer

    Richard G Saunders, Richard SaundersARTICLEEnterprise & Society2015

  • Geologies of power: Blood diamonds, security politics and Zimbabwe's troubled transition

    Richard G Saunders, Richard SaundersARTICLEJournal of Contemporary African…2014Cited by: 4References: 3

    The article shows how the 2006 discovery of significant deposits of diamonds in eastern Zimbabwe transformed the minerals sector and its nascent regional business networks, with significant political implications. It argues that diamond revenues have been used to prop up the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party and maintain its hold on the state and dominance in the Government of National Unity. Internal battle…

  • Gregory L. Schneider. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line

    Richard G Saunders, Richard SaundersARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    Journal Article Gregory L. Schneider. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. Get access Gregory L. Schneider. Rock Island Requiem: The Collapse of a Mighty Fine Line. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. Pp. xviii, 380. $37.50. Richard Saunders, Jr. Richard Saunders, Jr. Clemson University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 11…

  • Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska

    Open AccessRichard G Saunders, Robert SaundersARTICLEThe English Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska Get access Eminent Victorians on American Democracy: The View From Albion, by Frank Prochaska (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2012; pp. 169. £25). Robert Saunders Robert Saunders Jesus College, Oxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 128, Issue 533, August 2013, Pages 985–987, https…

  • Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina (review)

    Richard G Saunders, Richard SaundersARTICLETechnology and Culture2011

    Reviewed by: Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina Richard Saunders (bio) Historic Canals and Waterways of South Carolina. By Robert J. Kapsch. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xxi+238. $44.95. Charleston’s two rivers, the Ashley and the Cooper, do not go very far inland. Charleston did not have easy access to a backcountry. Corduroy roads rotted in the fetid climate. Stone for roads was not easily obtainable. Sha…

  • Zimbabwe: Liberation nationalism – old and born-again

    Open AccessRichard G Saunders, Richard SaundersARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2011Cited by: 4References: 2

  • Labor, the State, and the Struggle for a Democratic Zimbabwe

    Patrick Bond, Richard G Saunders et al.ARTICLEMonthly Review2005Cited by: 3

    When Zimbabwe attained its first independent government in 1980, led by President Robert Mugabe and liberation fighters of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), there were reasons to hope for a bright future. The new country inherited significant infrastructure from the prior Rhodesian settler regime, including relatively modern transportation and communications systems and an impressive set of import substitution industr…

  • Mugabe, Gramsci, and Zimbabwe at 25

    John S Saul, Richard G Saunders et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal Canada s…2005Cited by: 6

    Twenty-five years after Robert Mugabe brought Zimbabwe to independence in 1980, some might interpret the current, apparent reradicalization of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's (ZANU-PF) political project as a last, leftist, quasi-Gramscian gambit to recapture lost popular legitimacy. Many more, however, see it instead as reflecting the final throes of an increasingly compromised, corrupt, militarized, and unpopular regime. In…

  • Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002

    James Fair, James R Fair et al.ARTICLEThe Arkansas Historical Quarterly2004

    Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002. By Richard Saunders, Jr. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003. Pp. xxi, 436. $49.95.) This book is a sequel to Professor Saunders' Merging Lines, which covered consolidations in the railroad industry up to 1970 (see my review in AHQ [Summer 2002]). Coverage begins with the ill-fated merger that formed the Penn Central Railroad and then carries the reader to 2002, when th…

  • Poor Richard's almanack

    Open AccessRichard G Saunders, Richard Saunders et al.ARTICLEOrbis1995

  • The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company

    Richard G Saunders, Richard Saunders et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1986

    Review of: The Corn Belt Route: A History of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company. Grant, H. Roger

  • The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail

    Jordan Jay Hillman, Richard G Saunders et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1979

    Journal Article The Railroad Mergers and the Coming of Conrail. By Richard Saunders. (Westport: Greenwood, 1978. xii + 389 pp. Maps, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $25.00.) Get access Jordan Jay Hillman Jordan Jay Hillman Northwestern University School of Law Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 2, September 1979, Pages 449–450, https://doi.org/10.2307/1900…

  • Paternalism and Protest: Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905

    Richard G Saunders, Richard Saunders et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1972

  • Les Cahiers des Dix, no. 1

    Open AccessRichard M Saunders, Richard G SaundersARTICLECanadian Historical Review1937