Items where Author is "Gardner, Leigh"

Article

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 and Husain, Tehreem (2025) Sinews of empire? The Crown Agents for the Colonies and African government debt under colonial rule. Journal of Government and Economics, 17. ISSN 2667-3193

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2024) African American migration to Liberia, 1820-1906. Journal of Slavery & Data Preservation. ISSN 2691-297X

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2023) Slavery, coercion, and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Business History Review, 97 (2). pp. 199-223. ISSN 0007-6805

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2022) The collapse of the gold standard in Africa: money and colonialism in the interwar period. African Studies Review. ISSN 0002-0206

Broadberry, Stephen and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2022) Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1885–2008: evidence from eight countries. Explorations in Economic History, 83. ISSN 0014-4983

Feingold, Ellen, Fourie, Johan and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2021) A tale of paper and gold: the material history of money in South Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36 (2). 264 - 281. ISSN 2078-0389

Bolt, Jutta and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2020) How Africans shaped British colonial institutions: evidence from local taxation. Journal of Economic History, 80 (4). 1189 - 1223. ISSN 0022-0507

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2017) Colonialism or supersanctions: sovereignty and debt in West Africa, 1871-1914. European Review of Economic History, 21 (2). 236 - 257. ISSN 1361-4916

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2015) The curious incident of the franc in the Gambia: exchange rate instability and imperial monetary systems in the 1920s. Financial History Review, 22 (03). pp. 291-314. ISSN 0968-5650

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2014) The rise and fall of sterling in Liberia, 1847–1943. Economic History Review, 67 (4). 1089 - 1112. ISSN 0013-0117

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2010) Decentralization and corruption in historical perspective: evidence from tax collection in British colonial Africa. Economic History of Developing Regions, 25 (2). pp. 213-236. ISSN 2078-0389

Book Section

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2013) Fiscal policy in Belgian Congo in comparative perspective. In: Frankema, Ewout and Buelens, Frans, (eds.) Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development: the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies Compared. Routledge explorations in economic history. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, pp. 130-153. ISBN 9780415521741

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2010) An unstable foundation: taxation and development in Kenya, 1945-1963. In: Branch, Daniel, Cheeseman, Nic and Gardner, Leigh, (eds.) Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950. Afrikanische studien/African studies. LIT Verlag, Berlin, Germany. ISBN 9783825898052

Monograph

Feingold, Ellen, Fourie, Johan and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2021) A tale of paper and gold: the material history money in South Africa. Economic History Working Papers (323). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Broadberry, Stephen and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2019) Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa, 1885-2008. Economic History working papers (296). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Fourie, Johan and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2014) The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle. Economic History working paper series (203/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Broadberry, Stephen and Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2014) African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective. The Economic History working papers (202/2014). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2008) To take or to make?: contracting for legitimacy in the emerging states of twelth century Britain. Discussion papers in economic and social history (73). University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Book

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 and Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2020) The economic history of colonialism. Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK. ISBN 9781529207637

Online resource

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2023) Lessons from Liberia in sovereignty and economic development. Africa at LSE (05 Jun 2023). Blog Entry.

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 and Broadberry, Stephen (2014) Africa’s recent economic success in a European mirror: a historical perspective on avoiding ‘growth reversals’ and achieving sustained growth. Africa at LSE (02 May 2014). Website.

Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2012) History matters in assessing African tax systems. Africa at LSE (19 Nov 2012). Website.