Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction Gareth Austin -- 2 Environmental Impacts of Colonial Dynamics, 1400-1800: The First Global Age and the Anthropocene Amélia Polónia and Jorge M. Pacheco -- 3 Agricultural Intensification in Sub-Saharan Africa,...

The field of African economic history is in resurgence. This paper reviews recent and on-going research contributions and notes strengths in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety. In these strengths there is also a challenge: different methodological approaches may also...