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Dincecco, Mark, Fenske, James and Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano (2019) Is Africa different? Historical conflict and state development. Economic History of Developing Regions, 34 (2). pp. 209-250. doi:10.1080/20780389.2019.1586528 ISSN 2078-0389.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/20780389.2019.1586528
Abstract
We show new evidence that the consequences of historical warfare for state development differ for Sub-Saharan Africa. We identify the locations of more than 1,600 conflicts in Africa, Asia, and Europe from 1400 to 1799. We find that historical warfare predicts common-interest states defined by high fiscal capacity and low civil conflict across much of the Old World. For Sub-Saharan Africa, historical warfare predicts special-interest states defined by high fiscal capacity and high civil conflict. Our results offer new evidence about where and when ‘war makes states’.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DT Africa H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions U Military Science > U Military Science (General) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | War -- History -- Africa, War -- Economic aspects -- Africa, State, The -- History -- Africa, Military art and science -- Africa, Civil war -- Economic aspects -- Africa | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Economic History of Developing Regions | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2078-0389 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 3 May 2019 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 34 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 209-250 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/20780389.2019.1586528 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Economic History of Developing Regions on 03/05/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/20780389.2019.1586528 | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 11 February 2019 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 November 2020 | ||||||
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