African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?
In this paper we study 500 years of African economic history using traveller accounts. We systematically collected 2,464 unique documents, of which 855 pass language and rigorous data quality requirements. Our final corpus of texts contains more than 230,000 pages. Analysing such a corpus is an insu...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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University of Oxford
2022
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