Michiel de Haas
Michiel recently completed his Ph.D. (2017, Cum Laude) at Wageningen University, with a thesis entitled "Rural livelihoods and agricultural commercialization in colonial Uganda: conjunctures of external influences and local realities". He currently works as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the Rural and Environmental History Group. His research focuses on the economic history of sub-Saharan Africa, with expertise in East and Central Africa, Uganda in particular. His thematic interests include the long-term development of living standards, access to education and income inequality, as well as the determinants and impact of agricultural commercialization.
AEHN Working Papers
2016
AEHN Working Paper #25
Gender, ethnicity and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of church record data
2014
AEHN Working Paper #18
Measuring Rural Welfare in Colonial Uganda: Why Farmers Would not Work for Wages
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”