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  • Gardner, Leigh, Roy, Tirthankar (2025). Colonial armies and the World Wars. In The Routledge Economic History of War (pp. 80-93). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003275275-6
  • Gardner, Leigh (2024). African American Migration to Liberia, 1820-1906. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/njfngy
  • Gardner, Leigh A. (2022). Sovereignty without power: Liberia in the age of empires, 1822–1980. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009181082
  • Gardner, Leigh, Broadberry, Stephen (2021). Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008: Evidence from Eight Countries. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e146844
  • Gardner, Leigh, Bolt, Jutta (2020). How Africans shaped British colonial insitutions_ca. 1950. [Dataset]. OpenICPSR. https://doi.org/10.3886/e120581
  • Gardner, Leigh, Roy, Tirthankar (2020). The economic history of colonialism. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529207651
  • Gardner, Leigh (2013). Fiscal policy in Belgian Congo in comparative perspective. In Frankema, Ewout, Buelens, Frans (Eds.), Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development: the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared (pp. 130-153). Routledge.
  • Gardner, Leigh A. (2012). Taxing colonial Africa: the political economy of British imperialism. Oxford University Press.
  • Gardner, Leigh (2010). Decentralization and corruption in historical perspective: evidence from tax collection in British colonial Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions, 25(2), 213-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2010.527695
  • Branch, Branch, Cheeseman, Nic, Gardner, Leigh (Eds.) (2010). Our turn to eat: politics in Kenya since 1950. LIT Verlag.
  • Gardner, Leigh (2010). An unstable foundation: taxation and development in Kenya, 1945-1963. In Branch, Daniel, Cheeseman, Nic, Gardner, Leigh (Eds.), Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950 . LIT Verlag.
  • Gardner, Leigh (2008). To take or to make?: contracting for legitimacy in the emerging states of twelth century Britain. (Discussion papers in economic and social history 73). University of Oxford.
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  • Gardner, Leigh A. (2025). Trade and money in British West Africa, 1912–1970: evidence from seasonal cycles. African Economic History, 53(1), 144 - 165. https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.144 picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Leigh, Husain, Tehreem (2025). Sinews of empire? The Crown Agents for the Colonies and African government debt under colonial rule. Journal of Government and Economics, 17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jge.2025.100138 picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Leigh (2024). African American migration to Liberia, 1820-1906. Journal of Slavery & Data Preservation, https://doi.org/10.25971/0p5s-rx30. picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Leigh (2023). Slavery, coercion, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Business History Review, 97(2), 199-223. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680523000338 picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Leigh (5 June 2023) Lessons from Liberia in sovereignty and economic development. Africa at LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Leigh (2022). The collapse of the gold standard in Africa: money and colonialism in the interwar period. African Studies Review, https://doi.org/10.1017/asr.2022.133 picture_as_pdf
  • Broadberry, Stephen, Gardner, Leigh (2022). Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2021.101424 picture_as_pdf
  • Feingold, Ellen, Fourie, Johan, Gardner, Leigh (2021). A tale of paper and gold: the material history money in South Africa. (Economic History Working Papers 323). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Feingold, Ellen, Fourie, Johan, Gardner, Leigh (2021). A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36(2), 264 - 281. https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2021.1926232 picture_as_pdf
  • Bolt, Jutta, Gardner, Leigh (2020). How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation. Journal of Economic History, 80(4), 1189 - 1223. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050720000455 picture_as_pdf
  • Broadberry, Stephen, Gardner, Leigh (2019). Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008. (Economic History working papers 296). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Gardner, Leigh (2017). Colonialism or supersanctions: sovereignty and debt in West Africa, 1871-1914. European Review of Economic History, 21(2), 236 - 257. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hex001
  • Broadberry, Stephen, Gardner, Leigh A. (2016). Economic development in Africa and Europe: reciprocal comparisons. Revista de Historia Economica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History, 34(1), 11-37. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610915000348
  • Gardner, Leigh (2015). The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s. Financial History Review, 22(03), 291-314. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565015000232
  • Gardner, Leigh (2014). The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943. Economic History Review, 67(4), 1089 - 1112. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0289.12042
  • Gardner, Leigh, Broadberry, Stephen (2014). Africa’s recent economic success in a European mirror: a historical perspective on avoiding ‘growth reversals’ and achieving sustained growth.
  • Fourie, Johan, Gardner, Leigh (2014). The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle. (Economic History working paper series 203/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Broadberry, Stephen, Gardner, Leigh (2014). African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective. (The Economic History working papers 202/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Gardner, Leigh (2012). History matters in assessing African tax systems.
  • Gardner, Leigh A. (2012-11-15) The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1870-1943 [Other]. Modern and comparative economic history seminar, London, United Kingdom, GBR.