Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Dmitri van den Bersselaar
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
Orga-Einheit: 03-Afrikastudien
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Offizielle Kursbeschreibung: African economic history is experiencing a resurgence. This seminar explores current topics and debates in the economic history of Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 1500-2010. Methodologically, the seminar invites students to assess critically both qualitative and quantitative empirical contributions to the “new economic history of Africa”.
Literatur: Introductory reading: Hillbom, Ellen, and Erik Green. An Economic History of Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Economic Transformations and Political Changes. Palgrave, 2019. Austen, Ralph A. African economic history: Internal development and external dependency. James Currey, 1987.