Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242645 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
African Economic History Working Paper Series No. 16/2014
Publisher: 
African Economic History Network (AEHN), s.l.
Abstract: 
This paper ties into a new literature that aims to quantify the long-term economic effects of historical European settlement, arguing for the need to properly address the role of indigenous agency in path-dependent settlement processes. We conduct three comparative case studies in West, East and Southern Africa, showing that the successes of European settler farming were often of a temporary nature and that they critically depended on colonial government policies arranging access to local land and labour resources. Further, we argue that these policies were shaped by the clashing interests of African smallholders and European planters, in which colonial governments did not necessarily abide to settler demands, as is often assumed.
Subjects: 
cash-crop production
colonial history
settler farming
Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 
978-91-981477-5-9
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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