question archive Critical analysis paper: The course covered three competing social scientific schools of thought on the meta-dynamics of African history (represented by Mamdani, Herbst and AJR/Nunn), and the critical responses of historians to each of these
Critical analysis paper: The course covered three competing social scientific schools of thought on the meta-dynamics of African history (represented by Mamdani, Herbst and AJR/Nunn), and the critical responses of historians to each of these
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Critical analysis paper: The course covered three competing social scientific schools of thought on the meta-dynamics of African history (represented by Mamdani, Herbst and AJR/Nunn), and the critical responses of historians to each of these. This paper must assess these approaches comparatively, addressing (a) what is most and least persuasive in each, (b) which is most persuasive overall (and why), and (c) what further empirical research is required to resolve the debates among them and between them and the historians who have engaged them. Jeffrey Herbst, States and Power in Africa States and Power in Africa (2014 digital edition) Mahmoud Mamdani, Citizen and Subject (Princeton University Press, 2018) Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation," American Economic Review XCI (2001), 1369-1401 Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson, "Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution," The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117, 4 (2002), 1231-1294 Nathan Nunn, “The Long-Term Effects of Africa’s Slave Trades,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 123 (2008), 139-172
