David M Anderson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 77170 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David M Anderson |
| PRENOMES | David M |
| SOBRENOME | Anderson |
| ASSINATURA | ANDERSON D M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Warwick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0328-1640 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 943 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 93 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 18 |
Hunting, Environmental Change, and the Defaunation of Wildlife in Baringo, Kenya (1840–1977)
This article takes a long-term view of the history of Kenya’s wildlife, to consider the gradual defaunation of wildlife that took place over the first half of the twentieth century. In the Baringo lowlands of Kenya’s northern Rift Valley, a district famous for ivory hunting in the nineteenth century and an area with a dense wildlife population, the depletion of Kenya’s wildlife populations was not the result of hunting by locals or increased poac…
Coverage Retention and Plan Switching Following Switches From a Zero- to a Positive-Premium Plan
Turnover affects coverage losses by decreasing automatic, passive reenrollment among lower-income enrollees that may not realize they need to start paying premiums to retain coverage that previously did not have a premium. Turnover also nudges returning enrollees to select new plans rather than selecting their previous plans. This likely increases insurer price competition but also may create hassles for enrollees. These findings suggest that cov…
Changes to ACA Individual Insurance Markets After States Leave Healthcare.gov 2016-2023
To evaluate changes in enrollment, average risk scores, and premiums in the Affordable Care Act individual market after states transitioned from the federally facilitated marketplace (Healthcare.gov) to a state-based marketplace (SBM) between 2018 and 2023. This study employed a retrospective, quasi-experimental design of secondary data using a synthetic difference-in-differences analysis methodology. Our primary data source consisted of individu…
The Unintended Consequences of Individual Market Reinsurance
This Viewpoint discusses how reinsurance, a policy change made by 18 states to improve coverage affordability for unsubsidized Marketplace enrollees, has led to coverage losses among subsidized enrollees
Areal interpolation of population projections consistent with different SSPs from 1-km resolution to block level based on USA Structures dataset
Estimated Plan Enrollment Outcomes After Changes to US Health Insurance Marketplace Automatic Renewal Rules
The findings of this economic analysis suggest that a smart default policy could avoid defaulting lower-income marketplace enrollees to objectively inferior health care insurance plans and may lead to large reductions in lower-income enrollees' deductibles, copayments, and maximum out-of-pocket amounts. Implementation of a smart default policy could enable marketplace administrators to reduce the prevalence of underinsurance among lower-income ma…
Medicaid Coverage Disruptions Among Children Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid From 2016 to 2018
In this cohort study, the risk of Medicaid coverage disruption was high, with many eligible children in historically marginalized communities continuing to experience unstable enrollment. In addition to improving health outcomes, preventing coverage gaps through policies that decrease disenrollment may also reduce Medicaid costs
Kenya’s war in Somalia
This chapter reviews the first seven years of Kenya’s war in southern Somalia. The campaign will be examined in four parts through a chronological survey, looking first at the politics of the decision to invade, and then at the character of the military occupation, leading to a discussion of the Kenya Defence Force’s (KDF) exploitation of the economic opportunities presented to them in Kismayo. The fourth section describes the attrition the KDF h…
The Khat Controversy
Khat. A harmless natural stimulant or a lethal epidemic sweeping through the international drugs trade? Khat is a natural substance that, in the Middle East, is as ubiquitous as coffee is in the West. It is hugely popular in some African and Arab populations. But critics contend that it is a seriously addictive stimulant that damages the cardiovascular system. In a groundbreaking study, the authors go behind the veil of the drug, questioning its …
Preparing the Health Insurance Marketplaces for the Covid-19 Recession
Researchers at the Urban Institute recently estimated that 25 to 43 million people in the US will lose their employer-sponsored insurance as a result of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. These coverage losses have created an urgent need to transition those who have newly lost insurance to other forms of health insurance, lest they avoid seeking medical care or incur catastrophic medical debt for doing so. The Health Insurance Mark…
Abrupt shifts in the Indian summer monsoon during the last three millennia
Competing Public and Private Television Advertising Campaigns and Marketplace Enrollment for 2015 to 2018
Paul R. Shafer a, David M. Anderson b, Seciah M. Aquino c, Laura M. Baum d, Erika Franklin Fowler e, Sarah E. Gollust f, Competing Public and Private Television Advertising Campaigns and Marketplace Enrollment for 2015 to 2018, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 6, No. 2, The Social, Political, and Economic Effects of the Affordable Care Act (July 2020), pp. 85-112
The Ecology of Survival
Ecology of Survival
The Prosecution of Rape in Wartime
In July 2012, a landmark hearing before the High Court in London found that the British government had a case to answer concerning human rights abuses, including torture and rapes, allegedly perpetrated by British colonialists in Kenya, during the Mau Mau counterinsurgency of the 1950s. Among the four elderly Kenyan claimants in court that day was a Kikuyu woman, Jane Mara, whose testimony related the sexual abuses she had suffered. Jane had been…
Women Missionaries and Colonial Silences in Kenya's Female 'Circumcision' Controversy, 1906-1930
For the people of Kenya, recent global debates on the emotional and medical harm caused by female genital mutilation (FGM), allied to arguments about the human rights of the women subjected to such acts, have a significant historical resonance. In the 1920s, Christian missionaries in central Kenya mounted a concerted campaign to prohibit 'female circumcision' among their flourishing African congregations. This provoked a backlash, with thousands …
Policing and decolonisation
Allies at the End of Empire
Policing the empire
This important collection of essays breaks new ground in looking at the major role played by the colonial police forces in establishing and maintaining imperial authority.Policing the Empire highlights the centrality of the maintenance of law and order to the authority of the British Empire. A uniformed and disciplined body of paramilitary police, charged with imposing alien law and establishing and extending new measures of social control was on…
Policing and Decolonisation
Allies at the End of Empire
Policing the Empire
Policing, prosecution and the law in colonial Kenya, c. 1905–39
Policing, in its broadest sense, was the cutting edge of colonial rule in Kenya. The subject of law and order looms larger in the history of Kenya than in that of any other British colonial possession in Africa. This chapter examines the ways in which the particularities of local conditions affected the pattern and practice of policing in Kenya, and especially sets policing within the context of the operation of the legal system. It provides a br…
Allies at the End of Empire—Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945–76
The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War. Militia recruited from amongst the local population was a common feature in all the counter-insurgencies mounted against armed nationalist risings in this period. Styled here as ‘loyalists’, these militia fought against nationalists. Loyalist …
Making the Loyalist Bargain
In fighting Mau Mau rebels in Kenya between 1952 and 1956, the British armed and deployed an African militia, known as the Kikuyu Home Guard. This article considers the role played by these allies in the counter-insurgency war, looking specifically at amnesty and surrenders. The British held secret talks with Mau Mau leaders in 1954, and again in 1955, to organize rebel surrenders. The politics of surrenders split the Mau Mau movement, and also r…
Histories of the Hanged
Vigilantes, violence and the politics of public order in Kenya
This article examines recent violence in Nairobi in the context of increased vigilante activity throughout Kenya, and relates this to the broader political context of violence in the run‐up to the next general election, which is expected to take place before the end of 2002. The starting point for the analysis is the conflict between two rival vigilante groups in Nairobi's Kariobangi North estate, Mungiki and the Taliban. It is argued that existi…
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields of vision - from national political culture, oratory, and the staging of politics, to everyday struggles for livelihood among people …
Histories of the hanged
The true story of the Mau Mau rebellion of 1952-60 in Kenya, told for the first time This book tells for the first time the story of the dirty war the British fought in Kenya, in the run-up to the country's independence in 1964. In 1952, after years of tension and bitterness, the grievances of the Gikuyu people of central Kenya exploded into open rebellion. Only 32 European settlers died in the subsequent fighting, but more than 1,800 African civ…
Violence and Exodus in Kenya's Rift Valley, 2008
This article offers a preliminary analysis of the outbreak of violence in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya, over January and February 2008, following the national elections of December 2007. Maps of the earliest phase of the violence are reproduced to illustrate the sequencing and location of conflict. The causes of the violence are explored through discussion of historical patterns of land settlement in the Rift Valley, the impact of political …
Yours in Struggle for Majimbo’. Nationalism and the Party Politics of Decolonization in Kenya, 1955-64
Since the ending of colonial rule, the struggle for independence in Kenya has been seen as a triumph for the nationalist politics of the Kenya African National Union (KANU), the party that was victorious in the 1963 elections and held power until 2002. This article returns to the party politics of decolonization to reconsider the alternative vision of Kenya’s future then promoted by KANU’s rival party, the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU). K…
Mau Mau in the High Court and the 'Lost' British Empire Archives
In April 2011, a landmark hearing before the High Court in London found that the British government had a case to answer concerning abuse and torture allegedly carried out by British officials in Kenya during the Mau Mau counter-insurgency. Prior to the hearing, it was revealed that the British government had removed some 1,500 'sensitive' government files from Kenya at independence, many of these relating to alleged abuses carried our during the…
Stock theft and moral economy in colonial Kenya
Opening ParagraphFrom the earliest years of colonial government in Kenya, cattle raiding by Africans against their neighbours, and in particular livestock thefts from European farmers, presented the administration with their most persistent policing problem in the rural areas of the colony. As the period of colonial rule in Kenya was drawing to a close, reported cases of stock theft were once again showing a sharp increase, climbing from 1578 cas…
The Eroding Commons
The politics of oil in eastern Africa
After many years in which the potential for the development of the petroleum industry in eastern Africa has been largely ignored, the last five years has seen a resurgence of interest in oil exploration across the region. Long characterised as a “risky” frontier because of the difficult nature of the region's geology and the volatile character of its politics, the sharp rise in international oil prices, coupled with the difficulties in accessing …
Authoritarianism and the securitization of development in Africa
Debate on the ‘securitization’ of aid and international development since 9/11 has been anchored in two key claims: that the phenomenon has been driven and imposed by western governments and that this is wholly unwelcome and deleterious for those in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. This article challenges both of these assumptions by demonstrating how a range of African regimes have not only benefited from this dispensation but have …
Eroding the Commons
Colonial Baringo was largely unnoticed until drought and localized famine in the mid-1920s led to claims that its crisis was brought on by overcrowding and livestock mismanagement. In response to the alarm over erosion, the state embarked on a program for rehabilitation, conservation, and development. Eroding the Commons examines Baringo's efforts to contend with the problems of erosion and describes how they became a point of reference for simil…
Master and Servant in Colonial Kenya, 1895–1939
T HE recruitment of African labour at poor rates of pay and under primitive conditions of work was characteristic of the operation of colonial capitalism in Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The implications of these conditions have been generalized very widely in the historiography of colonial Kenya. Where capital was centred upon extractive industries or upon settler agriculture (as in Kenya), historians have found much evid…
Transitions Between Cultivation and Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa [and Comments and Reply]
Irrigation Before Development
Journal Article IRRIGATION BEFORE DEVELOPMENT: INDIGENOUS AND INDUCED CHANGE IN AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT IN EAST AFRICA Get access WILLIAM M. ADMAS, WILLIAM M. ADMAS Bill Adams is Assistant Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge, and David Anderson is Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. They are grateful to John Sutton, the Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, for his company and gener…
Understanding al-Shabaab
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen has proven itself to be a highly adaptable organisation. Their most recent evolution has seen them transform from an overt, military and governmental force in southern Somalia to a covert, insurgent and anarchic force in Kenya. This article indicates how al-Shabaab has reinvented itself in Kenya. Both ‘clan’ and ‘Islam’ are often thought of as immutable factors in al-Shabaab's make-up, but here we show that the or…
The beginning of time? Evidence for catastrophic drought in Baringo in the early nineteenth century
New developments in the collection of palaeo-data over the past two decades have transformed our understanding of climate and environmental history in eastern Africa. This article utilises instrumental and proxy evidence of historical lake-level fluctuations from Baringo and Bogoria, along with other Rift Valley lakes, to document the timing and magnitude of hydroclimate variability at decadal to century time scales since 1750. These data allow u…
Remembering Wagalla
In February 1984, soldiers of the Kenya Army mounted a security operation around Wajir in Kenya's North Eastern Province. Having rounded-up all Somali men of the Degodia clan, as many as 5000 were taken to the Wagalla airstrip for interrogation. This was part of the policy of 'collective punishment' – a conscious act of state violence against its own citizens. After four days of interrogations at Wagalla, several hundred Degodia lay dead: whether…
Africa's Urban Past
Revealing Prophets
Part 1 Prophetic idioms: Kidongoi's kin - prophecy and power in Maasailand, Richard D. Waller fertility as power - spirit mediums, priestesses and the pre-colonial state, Iris Berger the frontiers of prophecy - healing, the cosmos and Islam on the East African coast in the 19th century, David Sperling modern Zande prophetesses, Margaret Buckner. Part 2 Colonial historiographies: Maji Maji - prophecy and historiography, Marcia Wright the colonial …
Agriculture and Irrigation Technology at Lake Baringo in the Nineteenth Century
(1989). Agriculture and Irrigation Technology at Lake Baringo in the Nineteenth Century. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 84-97
Sexual Threat and Settler Society
This essay deals with ‘black peril’ scares in colonial Kenya, reviewing the evidence of reported cases of sexual assaults to provide a detailed account of their social and cultural resonance for settler society. Reported cases of assault were few in number and the outbreaks of ‘peril’ more sporadic in Kenya than in other settler societies in Africa, yet the exceptional nature of individual reported incidents of sexual assault was highly significa…
Black mischief
This article examines the history of African resistance to colonial rule among the Nandi and Kipsigis peoples of Kenya's Western Highlands. Anti-colonial protest centred on the activities of a group of ritual leaders, the orkoiik of the Talai clan, who were believed to possess supernatural powers of prophecy and divination. Between the late 1890s and 1905, the orkoiyot Koitalel had come to prominence as a leader of resistance to conquest. After h…
Punishment, Race and 'The Raw Native
The administration of justice throughout colonial Africa was profoundly influenced by questions of race. Taking as its starting point studies of the disciplining of farm labour in southern Africa, especially the work of Morrell and Pete on colonial Natal, this article surveys a number of notorious cases that reveal the brutality of corporal punishments administered by settlers to their employees in Kenya before 1930. By the 1920s, Kenya's reputat…
Resilience and collapse
The concept of resilience is now applied across the natural and social sciences to provide a means of examining and understanding adaptation and transformation over a longer time period, in response to environmental, economic, cultural, or political shocks or adverse events. This essay introduces a collection of 10 studies that analyse resilience in the context of the Baringo-Bogoria basin, a predominantly savannah ecological zone in Kenya's nort…
Stock theft and moral economy in colonial Kenya
Opening ParagraphFrom the earliest years of colonial government in Kenya, cattle raiding by Africans against their neighbours, and in particular livestock thefts from European farmers, presented the administration with their most persistent policing problem in the rural areas of the colony. As the period of colonial rule in Kenya was drawing to a close, reported cases of stock theft were once again showing a sharp increase, climbing from 1578 cas…
Irrigation Before Development
Journal Article IRRIGATION BEFORE DEVELOPMENT: INDIGENOUS AND INDUCED CHANGE IN AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT IN EAST AFRICA Get access WILLIAM M. ADMAS, WILLIAM M. ADMAS Bill Adams is Assistant Lecturer in Geography at the University of Cambridge, and David Anderson is Lecturer in History at Birkbeck College, University of London. They are grateful to John Sutton, the Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa, for his company and gener…
Agriculture and Irrigation Technology at Lake Baringo in the Nineteenth Century
(1989). Agriculture and Irrigation Technology at Lake Baringo in the Nineteenth Century. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 84-97
The Ecology of Survival
Introduction - ecology and society in northeast African history, David M. Anderson and Douglas H. Johnson Part 1 Archaeological and historical perspectives - human adaptation and long-term climatic change in northeast Africa - and archaeological perspective, John A.J. Gowlett the great drought and famine of 1888-92 in northeast Africa, Richard Pankhurst and Douglas H. Johnson Emutai - crisis and response in Maasailand 1883-1902, Richard Waller. P…
Khaki and Blue
Diviners, seers and spirits in eastern Africa
Anthropologists and historians of eastern African societies have long shared a common interest in the description and analysis of African religions and beliefs. Spirit possession, mediumship, witchcraft beliefs, diviners and divinatory techniques, the role of prophets and the nature of prophetic traditions are all subjects for which there is now an extensive, and still growing, body of literature. For virtually no group of the present ethnographi…
Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism
Journal Article Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism: The Central Region in the late nineteenth century Get access Kenyan Communities in the Age of Imperialism: The Central Region in the late nineteenth century, by Charles H. Ambler. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988. xii + 181 pp. $32.50 hardback, £22.50 paperback.ISBN 0300 039573. DAVID M. ANDERSON DAVID M. ANDERSON SOAS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Guide to Archives and Manuscripts Relating to Kenya and East Africa in the United Kingdom, Volume 1
Journal Article Guide to Archives and Manuscripts Relating to Kenya and East Africa in the United Kingdom, Volume 1: Official records, Volume 2: Non-official archives and manuscripts Get access Guide to Archives and Manuscripts Relating to Kenya and East Africa in the United Kingdom, Volume 1: Official records, Volume 2: Non-official archives and manuscripts, by Anne Thurston. Hans Zell Publishers, London, 1991. xvii + 1196 pp. £120, 2 volume set…
Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya
Journal Article Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya: The Gusii and the British 1907–1963 Get access Conflict and Accommodation in Western Kenya: The Gusii and the British 1907–1963, by Robert M. Maxon. Fairleigh Division University Press for the Associated University Presses, London and Toronto, 1989. 209 pp. £23. ISBN 0 8386 3350 1. DAVID M. ANDERSON DAVID M. ANDERSON SOAS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google …
Using ITS to Create an Insurance Industry Application
In a joint case study, IBM and Continental Insurance evaluated the use of a new software development environment (called ITS) to implement a portion of an important Continental Insurance underwriting application. IBM and Continental's data-processing management jointly concluded that ITS (a) is fairly easy to learn and use; (b) substantially reduces application development time; (c) is capable of doing a range of Continental applications; and (d)…
Policing and communal conflict
(1993). Policing and communal conflict: The Cyprus emergency, 1954–60. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 21, Emergencies and Disorder in the European Empires after 1945, pp. 177-207
Black mischief
This article examines the history of African resistance to colonial rule among the Nandi and Kipsigis peoples of Kenya's Western Highlands. Anti-colonial protest centred on the activities of a group of ritual leaders, the orkoiik of the Talai clan, who were believed to possess supernatural powers of prophecy and divination. Between the late 1890s and 1905, the orkoiyot Koitalel had come to prominence as a leader of resistance to conquest. After h…
Transitions Between Cultivation and Pastoralism in Sub-Saharan Africa [and Comments and Reply]
The ‘Crisis of Capitalism’ and Kenya's Social History
Journal Article THE ‘CRISIS OF CAPITALISM’ AND KENYA'S SOCIAL HISTORY: A COMMENT Get access DAVID M. ANDERSON DAVID M. ANDERSON David M. Anderson is Senior Lecturer in the History of Africa, at the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 367, April 1993, Pages 285–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098615 …
Sea-Surface Temperature Estimates for the Tropical Western Pacific during the Last Glaciation and Their Implications for the Pacific Warm Pool
Twenty deep-sea sediment cores from the western Pacific between 30°N and 30°S provide evidence of sea-surface temperature (SST) changes throughout the tropics and subtropics. Glacial SSTs were estimated using the modern analog technique (MAT) applied to planktonic foraminifers and planktonic foraminiferal δ 18 O changes. We used δ 18 O to identify the last glacial maximum. The MAT method differs from the traditional transfer function approach in …
Policing the Empire
Introduction - consent, coercion and colonial control - policing the Empire, 1830-1940. Part 1 Policing the colonies of settlement, 1830-1900: the Irish Model and the Empire - a case for re-assessment, Richard Hawkins the varieties of policing - colonial Queensland, 1860-1900, Mark Finnane the policing of colonial New Zealand - from informal to formal control, 1840-1907, Richard S.Hill patterns of policing in the post-emancipation British Caribbe…
Sea-Surface Temperatures and the History of Monsoon Upwelling in the Northwest Arabian Sea during the Last 500,000 Years
Arabian Sea sediments record changes in the upwelling system off Arabia, which is driven by the monsoon circulation system over the NW Indian Ocean. In accordance with climate models, and differing from other large upwelling areas of the tropical ocean, a 500,000-yr record of productivity at ODP Site 723 shows consistently stronger upwelling during interglaciations than during glaciations. Sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) reconstructed from the al…
The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields of vision - from national political culture, oratory, and the staging of politics, to everyday struggles for livelihood among people …
Archives and Manuscripts Collections Relating to Africa Held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Readers of this journal will surely be familiar with the excellent research collection of published materials on Africa held in London by the library of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). This remains the foremost collection of its kind in Europe, and has long been widely used by visiting scholars from all around the world. But it is less well known that the library also houses a substantial and rapidly expanding collection of pri…
The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940
The southwest Indian Monsoon over the last 18 000 years
Revealing Prophets
Part 1 Prophetic idioms: Kidongoi's kin - prophecy and power in Maasailand, Richard D. Waller fertility as power - spirit mediums, priestesses and the pre-colonial state, Iris Berger the frontiers of prophecy - healing, the cosmos and Islam on the East African coast in the 19th century, David Sperling modern Zande prophetesses, Margaret Buckner. Part 2 Colonial historiographies: Maji Maji - prophecy and historiography, Marcia Wright the colonial …
Revealing Prophets
Revealing Prophets
Communitarian Approaches to the Economy
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