Kate Frederick
Kate Frederick (1988) obtained a BA in History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2010. Thereafter, she studied Modern History at Utrecht University and received a Research MA in 2013. Her RMA thesis investigated the impact of foreign cotton cloth imports on British West African cloth industries during the late pre-colonial and colonial eras. While studying at Utrecht University, Kate worked at Wageningen University as a Research Assistant on prof. dr. Ewout Frankema's "Is Poverty Destiny?" project, compiling and processing import and export trade statistics for British African colonies. In 2013, Kate was awarded an NWO Graduate Programme grant (200K) by the N.W. Posthumus Institute to undertake an individual PhD project at Wageningen University. The "Unravelling the African Textile Mystery" project explores the relationship between international trade and the deterioration of local cloth industries in east Africa, with a comparative eye toward west Africa. The project is due to be completed in 2017. Kate currently co-edits the African Economic History Network blog.
AEHN Blog Articles
The launch of Frontiers in African Economic History
Interview: Ewout Frankema
Witchcraft Beliefs and the Erosion of Social Capital
How Colonial Railroads defined Africa’s Economic Geography
Interview: Patrick Manning
Monetary practices and currency transitions in early colonial Uganda
Doing Economic History in Africa: experiences from the archives in Uganda
The trans-Atlantic slave trade and local political fragmentation in Africa
Intra-household labor allocation in colonial Nigeria
Was the wage burden too heavy? Profits and wages on European settler farms
The data revolution in African Economic History
Measuring rural welfare in colonial Africa: did Uganda’s smallholders thrive?
Interview: Paul Lovejoy
From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt
Weather Shocks and Agricultural Commercialization in Colonial Tropical Africa: Did Export Crops Alleviate Social Distress?
Long-term trends in economic inequality: Lessons from colonial Botswana 1921–1974
From the Archives: experiences of doing historical demography in Northern Ghana
Slave ship provisioning in the long 18th century. A boost to West African commercial agriculture?
European Trade, Colonialism, and Human Capital Accumulation in Senegal, Gambia and Western Mali, 1770-1900
Colonial State Formation Without Integration: Tax Capacity and Labour Regimes in Portuguese Mozambique (1890s–1970s)
Colonialism or Supersanctions: Sovereignty and Debt in West Africa, 1871-1914
Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Uganda, 1895-2011
Indian Textiles and Gum Arabic in the Lower Senegal River: Global Significance of Local Trade and Consumers in the Early Nineteenth Century
Interview: Emmanuel Akyeampong
The Territorial Expansion of the Colonial State: Evidence from German East Africa 1890–1909
Trickle-down Ethnic Politics: Drunk and Absent in the Kenya Police Force (1957-1970)
‘Changing Grounds’. The Development of Coffee Production in the Lake Kivu Region (1918-1960/62)
An Economic Rationale for the West African Scramble? The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1835–1885
‘Hail the Census Night’: Trust and Political Imagination in the 1960 Population Census of Ghana
African Agricultural Productivity and the Transatlantic Slave Trade: Evidence from Senegambia in the Nineteenth Century
Financing the African Colonial State: Fiscal Capacity Building and Forced Labor
Africa Rising in Economic History
LEAP Lecture by A.G. Hopkins: “50 Years of African Economic History”