Title and contact details
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Dr Leigh Gardner
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Lecturer in Economic History
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Room C322
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Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 6427
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Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7730
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l.a.gardner@lse.ac.uk
Research Interests
Economic and fiscal history of the British Empire, particularly Africa; political economy of medieval kingship, economic origins of political institutions.
Current Research Projects
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Paying for the British Empire: The Problem of Imperial Finance, 1760-1960
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Money in Africa (with Max Bolt, Katie Eagleton and Karin Pallaver from the British Museum)
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Human Development under Colonial Rule in Africa (with Alex Moradi from the University of Sussex)
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Fiscal History of South Africa, 1652-1910 (with Estian Calitz, Johan Fourie, and Krige Siebrits from the University of Stellenbosch)
Current teaching
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EH401 Historical Analysis of Economic Change
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EH482 Pre-modern Paths of Growth: East and West Compared, c. 1000-1800
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EH413 African Economic Development in Historical Perspective
Selected publications
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Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism (forthcoming, Oxford University Press)
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'Decentralization and Corruption in Historical Perspective: Evidence from Tax Collection in British Colonial Africa', Economic History of Developing Regions 25: 2 (December 2010), pp. 213-36.
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'An Unstable Foundation: Taxation and Development in Kenya, 1945-63', in D. Branch, N. Cheeseman and L. Gardner (eds.), Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950 (Berlin,2010).
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D. Branch, N. Cheeseman and L. Gardner (eds.), Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since 1950 (Berlin, 2010).
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'To Take or to Make? Contracting for Legitimacy in the Emerging States of Twelfth-Century Britain', Oxford University Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History 73 (2008).
Other
Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Stellenbosch University
Curriculum Vitae