LSE creators

Number of items: 37.
2014
  • Austin, Gareth, Broadberry, Stephen (2014). Introduction: the renaissance of African economic history. Economic History Review, 67(4), 893-906. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.12081
    • 2013
  • Austin, Gareth, Sugihara, Kaoru (Eds.) (2013). Labour-intensive industrialization in global history. Routledge.
    • 2009
  • Austin, Gareth (2009). Factor markets in Nieboer conditions: early modern West Africa c.1500 - c.1900. Continuity and Change, 24(Specia), 23-53. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416009007024
  • Austin, Gareth (2009). The state as help or hindrance to market-led economic growth: West Africa in the era of "Legitimate commerce". In Falola, Toyin, Childs, Matt D. (Eds.), The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law (pp. 145-163). Carolina Academic Press.
  • Austin, Gareth (2009). Cash crops and freedom: export agriculture and the decline of slavery in colonial West Africa. International Review of Social History, 54(01), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859009000017
    • 2008
  • Austin, Gareth (2008). The 'reversal of fortune' thesis and the compression of history: perspectives from African and comparative economic history. Journal of International Development, 20(8), 996-1027. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.1510
  • Austin, Gareth (2008). Resources, techniques and strategies south of the Sahara: revising the factor endowments perspective on African economic development, 1500-2000. Economic History Review, 61(3), 587-624. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2007.00409.x
  • Austin, Gareth (2008). 'Foreword' to the Nigerian edition. In Dike, K. Onwuka (Ed.), Trade and Politics in the Niger Delta 1830 - 1885 (pp. ix-xxiv). Bookcraft.
  • Austin, Gareth (2008). Global history and economic teaching: a view of the L.S.E. experience in research and graduate teaching. In Manning, Patrick (Ed.), Global Practice in World History: Advances Worldwide (pp. 99-111). Markus Wiener.
    • 2007
  • Austin, Gareth (2007). Reciprocal comparison and African history: tackling conceptual Eurocentrism in the study of Africa's economic past. African Studies Review, 50(3), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1353/arw.2008.0009
  • Austin, Gareth, Uche, Chibuike Ugochukwu (2007). Collusion and competition in colonial economies: banking in British West Africa, 1916-1960. Business History Review, 81(1), 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680500036230
  • Austin, Gareth (2007). Labour and land in Ghana, 1874-1939: a shifting ratio and an institutional revolution. Australian Economic History Review, 47(1), 95-120. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8446.2006.00198.x
    • 2005
  • Austin, Gareth (2005). Labour, land and capital in Ghana : from slavery to free labour in Asante, 1807-1956. University of Rochester Press.
  • Austin, Gareth (2005). The political economy of the natural environment in West African history: Asante and its Savanna neighbors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Kuba, Richard, Lentz, Carola (Eds.), Land and the Politics of Belonging in West Africa (pp. 187-212). Brill Academic Publishers.
    • 2004
  • Austin, Gareth (2004). Sub-Saharan Africa: land rights and ethno-national consciousness in historically land abundant economies. In Engerman, Stanley, Meter, Jacob (Eds.), Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality, and Sovereignty in History (pp. 276-293). Routledge.
  • Austin, Gareth (2004). Markets with, without, and in spite of states: West Africa in the pre-colonial nineteenth century. (Working papers of the Global Economic History Network (GEHN) 03/04). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • 2003
  • Austin, Gareth (2003). African rural capitalism, cocoa farming and economic growth in colonial Ghana. In Falola, Toyin (Ed.), Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen (pp. 437-453). Africa World Press.
  • Austin, Gareth (2003). Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana. In Mokyr, Joel (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (pp. 15-18). Oxford University Press.
  • Austin, Gareth (2003). Economic imperialism. In Mokyr, Joel (Ed.), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (pp. 145-155). Oxford University Press.
  • Austin, Gareth (2003). Human pawning in Asante 1800-1950: markets and coercion, gender and cocoa. In Lovejoy, Paul E., Falola, Toyin (Eds.), Pawnship, Slavery and Colonialism in Africa (pp. 187-224). Africa World Press.
    • 2002
  • Austin, Gareth (2002). African business in nineteenth-century West Africa. In Jalloh, Alusine, Falola, Toyin (Eds.), Black Business and Economic Power (pp. 114-146). University of Rochester Press.
  • Austin, Gareth (2002). Between abolition and jihad: the Asanti response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807 - 1896. In Law, Robin (Ed.), From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: the Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (pp. 93-118). Cambridge University Press.
    • 2001
  • Austin, Gareth (2001). Agricultural intensification and conflict in Ghana: a historical perspective on human security. Ghana Studies Council Newsletter, (14), 6-13.
    • 2000
  • Austin, Gareth (2000). Markets, democracy and African economic growth: liberalism and Afro-pessimism reconsidered. Round Table: the Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 89(357), 543-555. https://doi.org/10.1080/003585300225179
    • 1998
  • Austin, Gareth (1998). Industrial growth in the Third World, c.1870-c.1990: depressions, intra-regional trade and ethnic networks. (Economic History working papers 44/98). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • 1997
  • Hill, Polly, Austin, Gareth (1997). Introduction. In Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana: a Study in Rural Capitalism (pp. ix-xxviii). James Currey (Firm).
    • 1996
  • Austin, Gareth (1996). National poverty and the "vampire state" in Ghana: a review article. Journal of International Development, 8(4), 553-573. https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-1328(199607)8:4<553::AID-JID265>3.0.CO;2-8
  • Austin, Gareth (1996). "No elders were present": commoners and private ownership in Asante, 1807 - 1896. Journal of African History, 37(1), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700034770
  • Austin, Gareth, Clarence-Smith, William G (1996). Mode of production or mode of cultivation: explaining the failure of European cocoa planters in competition with African farmers in colonial Ghana. In Clarence-Smith, William G (Ed.), Cocoa Pioneer Fronts Since 1800: the Role of Smallholders, Planters and Merchants (pp. 154-175). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Austin, Gareth (1996). The Sunyani branch of the national archives [of Ghana]: an introductory note. (Ghana Studies Council newsletter Number 9 (spring/summer 1996)). Ghana Studies Council.
    • 1993
  • Austin, Gareth, Sugihara, Kaoru (1993). Indigenous credit institutions in West Africa, c.1750 - c.1960. In Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750 - 1960 (pp. 93-159). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Austin, Gareth, Sugihara, Kaoru (1993). Introduction: Local suppliers of credit in the Third World, 1750-1960. In Local Suppliers of Credit in the Third World, 1750-1960 (pp. 1-25). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Austin, Gareth, Sugihara, Kaoru (Eds.) (1993). Local suppliers of credit in the Third World, 1750-1960. Palgrave Macmillan.
    • 1992
  • Austin, Gareth (1992). Scale bias & state building: an historical perspective on government intervention, political systems & economic performance in tropical Africa. (Economic History working papers 6/92). Department of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science.
    • 1988
  • Austin, Gareth (1988). Chiefs and capitalists in the cocoa hold-ups in South Asante, 1927 - 1938. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 21(1), 63-95.
    • 1986
  • Austin, Gareth (1986). The emergence of capitalist relations in South Asante cocoa-farming c.1916 - 1933. Journal of African History, 28(2), 259-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700029777
  • Austin, Gareth (1986). The Kumase branch of the National Archives of Ghana: a situation report and introduction for prospective users. History in Africa: an Annual Journal of Method, 13, 383-389.