Topic · Colonialism, slavery, and trade
Most cited papers in Colonialism, slavery, and trade
What are the most cited papers in Colonialism, slavery, and trade?
The most cited paper in Colonialism, slavery, and trade is "The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth" (Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson, 2005), with 1,806 citations. Next come "History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World" (1,727) and "Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille" (1,374).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 200 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · American Economic Review | Jun 2005 | 1,806 |
| 2 | History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Stanley L. Engerman · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | Aug 2000 | 1,727 |
| 3 | Historical events as transformations of structures: Inventing revolution at the Bastille William H. Sewell · Theory and Society | Dec 1996 | 1,374 |
| 4 | The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita Melissa Dell · Econometrica | 2010 | 1,188 |
| 5 | Colonial archives and the arts of governance Ann Laura Stoler · Archives and Museum Informatics | Mar 2002 | 1,110 |
| 6 | Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition Jessica Hallenbeck, Mike Krebs, Sarah Hunt et al. · The AAG Review of Books | 21 Mar 2016 | 969 |
| 7 | The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 Donald B. Cooper · Hispanic American Historical Review | Aug 1973 | 905 |
| 8 | African Traditional Thought and Western Science Robin Horton · Africa | 1967 | 879 |
| 9 | :Ceremonies of Possession in Europe's Conquest of the New World, 1492-1640 Charles L. Cohen · Sixteenth Century Journal | Dec 1996 | 858 |
| 10 | Beyond Occidentalism: Toward Nonimperial Geohistorical Categories Fernando Coronil · Cultural Anthropology | Feb 1996 | 848 |
| 11 | The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census. Peter J. Duignan, Philip D. Curtin · The Journal of Southern History | Nov 1970 | 793 |
| 12 | Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400–1900 Víctor M. Uribe-Urán · Hispanic American Historical Review | Nov 2003 | 790 |
| 13 | Law and disorder in the postcolony* Jean Comaroff, John Comaroff · Social Anthropology | 30 Nov 2007 | 774 |
| 14 | The Fishes and the Forest: Explorations in Amazonian Natural History. Ghillean Tolmie Prance, Michael Goulding · Brittonia | Apr 1981 | 631 |
| 15 | Blind Memory: Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America, 1780-1865 Jane Rhodes, Marcus Wood · Journal of American History | Dec 2001 | 622 |
| 16 | science and colonial expansion: the role of the British Royal Botanic Gardens Lucile H. Brockway · American Ethnologist | Aug 1979 | 597 |
| 17 | The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis Evsey D. Domar · The Journal of Economic History | Mar 1970 | 594 |
| 18 | Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction Charles D. Hamilton · History Reviews of New Books | Oct 1997 | 567 |
| 19 | Introduction: Money and the morality of exchange Jonathan P. Parry, Maurice E. F. Bloch · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 9 Nov 1989 | 557 |
| 20 | NEO-TRADITIONALISM AND THE LIMITS OF INVENTION IN BRITISH COLONIAL AFRICA Thomas C. Spear · The Journal of African History | Mar 2003 | 533 |
| 21 | Victorian Anthropology Robert Alan Segal · Journal of the American Academy of Religion | 1990 | 523 |
| 22 | A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400-1900 Lauren A. Benton | 30 Nov 2009 | 507 |
| 23 | Colonial lives of property: law, land, and racial regimes of ownership Christian Have Lund · The Journal of Peasant Studies | 7 Jul 2019 | 498 |
| 24 | Tourism in Ghana Edward M. Bruner · American Anthropologist | Jun 1996 | 489 |
| 25 | Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. Emily S. Rosenberg, Jack Snyder · Journal of American History | Sep 1992 | 485 |
| 26 | Critical Legal Histories Robert Winslow Gordon · Stanford Law Review | 1984 | 475 |
| 27 | Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa Lidwien Kapteijns, Paul E. Lovejoy · The International Journal of African Historical Studies | 1984 | 461 |
| 28 | The Reaper's Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery Christer Petley · Slavery and Abolition | 25 Nov 2009 | 452 |
| 29 | Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups David Allen Gerber, Stephan Thernstrom, А С Орлов et al. · Journal of American History | Jun 1981 | 435 |
| 30 | A Despotism of Law: Crime and Justice in Early Colonial India Ludo Rocher, Radhika Singha · Journal of the American Oriental Society | Oct 2001 | 434 |
| 31 | The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution Ashli White · Journal of American History | Oct 2019 | 430 |
| 32 | Soul by Soul: Life inside the Antebellum Slave Market Theodore Kornweibel · History Reviews of New Books | 2000 | 424 |
| 33 | Wealth in People as Wealth in Knowledge: Accumulation and Composition in Equatorial Africa Jane I. Guyer, Samuel M. Eno Belinga · The Journal of African History | Mar 1995 | 420 |
| 34 | Law and Colonial Cultures: Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900 Lauren A. Benton | 3 Dec 2001 | 399 |
| 35 | Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, c. 1500-c. 1800 Woodrow Borah · Hispanic American Historical Review | Feb 1997 | 395 |
| 36 | The early modern great divergence: wages, prices and economic development in Europe and Asia, 1500–1800 1 Stephen Broadberry, Bishnupriya Gupta · The Economic History Review | 16 Nov 2005 | 389 |
| 37 | Social Death and Political Life in the Study of Slavery Vincent R. Brown · The American Historical Review | Dec 2009 | 376 |
| 38 | The Modern State and the Primitive Accumulation of Symbolic Power Mara Loveman · American Journal of Sociology | May 2005 | 365 |
| 39 | The long march of history: Farm wages, population, and economic growth, England 1209–18691 Gregory T. Clark · The Economic History Review | 10 Jul 2006 | 364 |
| 40 | An‐ arrgh ‐chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization Peter T. Leeson · Journal of Political Economy | Dec 2007 | 360 |
| 41 | A Search for Sovereignty: Law and Geography in European Empires, 1400 – 1900 Carla Rahn Phillips · Hispanic American Historical Review | 28 Mar 2011 | 354 |
| 42 | Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World: A Derivative Discourse? Ketu H. Katrak · Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East | Aug 1988 | 351 |
| 43 | :The Slave Ship: A Human History Robin Law · The American Historical Review | Oct 2008 | 349 |
| 44 | Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, Kevin O’Rourke, Jeffrey Gale Williamson · Journal of American History | Dec 2000 | 347 |
| 45 | White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 Michael Banton · Sociology | 1969 | 347 |
| 46 | The ‘reversal of fortune’ thesis and the compression of history: Perspectives from African and comparative economic history Gareth Austin · Journal of International Development | Nov 2008 | 344 |
| 47 | Ocean Freight Rates and Productivity, 1740–1913: The Primacy of Mechanical Invention Reaffirmed C. Knick Harley · The Journal of Economic History | Dec 1988 | 343 |
| 48 | The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas Nathan Nunn, Nancy Qian · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2010 | 338 |
| 49 | The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism, and the Cant of Conquest Alden T. Vaughan, Francis Jennings · Western Historical Quarterly | Oct 1976 | 333 |
| 50 | Elite Recruitment and Political Stability: The Impact of the Abolition of China's Civil Service Exam Ying Bai, Ruixue Jia · Econometrica | 2016 | 332 |
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