TY - JOUR
AU1 - Austin, Gareth
AU2 - Broadberry, Stephen
AB -  The articles in this special issue of the Economic History Review are concerned with the economic history of Africa. Most of them were presented at a conference on ‘New Frontiers in African Economic History’, held at the Graduate Institute in Geneva in September 2012, with the financial support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This meeting, organized by Gareth Austin, brought together many of the rising stars of the new generation of economic historians working on Africa, together with some of the more established scholars in the field. This introductory essay provides some background to the renaissance of African economic history that has taken place in recent years and relates the articles included here to the wider intellectual currents underpinning that rebirth. Section I traces the cyclical upswings and downswings of the subject over the last half‐century or so, while section II stands back to look at both the achievements of this work and the reasons for its relative isolation from the mainstream of economic history. Section III briefly summarizes the articles in the current collection, while section IV explains how they overcome the barriers to integration with the mainstream of economic history. Section V concludes. I Although 
TI - Introduction: The renaissance of African economic history
JF - Economic History Review
DO - 10.1111/1468-0289.12081
DA - 2014-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/introduction-the-renaissance-of-african-economic-history-QrfgzMKe0Z
SP - 893
EP - 906
VL - 67
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -