Contents
Foreword
Series Introduction: Historical legacies and contemporary development
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
Introduction
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
Understanding the long-run effects of Africa’s slave trades
Nathan Nunn
The contemporary shadow of the Scramble for Africa
Stelios Michalopoulos and Elias Papaioannou
Indirect rule and local government reform in Africa today
Tristan Reed
King Leopold’s ghost: The legacy of labour coercion in the DRC
Sara Lowes and Eduardo Montero
How colonial railroads defined Africa’s economic geography
Remi Jedwab, Edward Kerby and Alexander Moradi
The devil is in the detail: Christian missions’ heterogeneous effects on development in sub-Saharan Africa
Julia Cagé and Valeria Rueda
Independence movements and democracy in Africa
Leonard Wantchekon and Omar García-Ponce
Direct versus indirect colonial rule in India
Lakshmi Iyer
The legacies of forced freedom: China’s treaty ports
Ruixue Jia
On the short- and long-run effects of male-biased sex ratios: Evidence from convict transportation to Australia
Pauline Grosjean