The Data Revolution in African Economic History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3138871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Johan Fourie (0000-0002-7341-017X, College of Accounting, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 193-212 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1953 • E-ISSN: 1530-9169 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/jinh_a_00977 |
| OpenAlex | W2279508390 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 53 |
The recent surge in computing power and access to data-processing software and online resources enables historians to capture historical statistics on a much larger scale than before. The data revolution-encompassing unprecedented advances in data transcription, augmentation, and collaboration-is especially valuable for studying the history of regions where written records are scarce, such as sub-Saharan Africa. The digitization of large numbers of colonial and postcolonial records offers much promise for a greater understanding of Africa's economic past
Archaeology · Cartography · Colonialism · Data science · Digitization · Geography · Industrial Revolution · Scale (ratio) · Telecommunications · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Computer Science · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · History
The Pitfalls of Using Ancient Population, Army and Casualty Data without Expert Curation
Introduction
Virtual Abolition
Historical Legacies and African Development
Slavery, Coercion, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Marriage in the Mother City
Macroeconomic history in South Africa
Who Writes African Economic History
Statistical sources and African post-colonial economic history
Poverty and inequality in Francophone Africa, 1960s–2010s
Fifty years of African economic history
Building the Cape of Good Hope Panel
Poor South Africa! Will No Nice English People Ever Come Out Here?’ The South African Constabulary of the Anglo-Boer War
When Cape slavery ended
Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda
Record linkage in the Cape of Good Hope Panel
Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008
Financing the African Colonial State
European Trade, Colonialism, and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770-1900
African time travellers
Factor endowments on the 'frontier
The ‘reversal of fortune’ thesis and the compression of history
The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa
Urban-Rural Inequality in Living Standards in Africa
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
Social science history
Ruggedness
The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa
Missionaries and female empowerment in colonial Uganda
The Internationalization of Economic History
New Estimates of Settler Life Span and Other Demographic Trends in South Africa, 1652–1948
Poverty and Physical Well-being among the Coloured Population in South Africa
Happy in the Service of the Company
The economics of apartheid
Living Conditions in Côte D'ivoire and Ghana, 1925–1985
The Internationalization of Economic History
Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate and the slave trade
The Economic History Review
Height and Per Capita Income
Shrinking in a Growing Economy? The Mystery of Physical Stature during the Industrial Revolution
Structural Impediments to African Growth? New Evidence from Real Wages in British Africa, 1880–1965
The development and inequality of heights in North, West, and East India 1915–1944
Colonial taxation and government spending in British Africa, 1880–1940
Slaves, Palm Oil, and Political Power on the West African Coast
The Export of Slaves from Africa, 1821–1843
Measuring the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Missing People
Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons From Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, C. 1880–1940
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part I
Numeracy of A fricans, A sians, and E uropeans during the early modern period
The Effect of the TseTse Fly on African Development
The Slave Trade and the Origins of Mistrust in Africa
Borders That Divide
Fathers' Employment and Sons' Stature
Height, frailty, and the standard of living
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
The Legacy of Historical Conflict
Nutritional Trends in Africa and the Americas
Nutritional Success on the Great Plains
Introduction
A WestAfrican experiment
Writing history backwards or sideways
Secular Changes in American and British Stature and Nutrition
Settler skills and colonial development
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2025 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |