IOWC Director Gwyn Campbell
Gwyn Campbell holds a Canada Research Chair in Indian Ocean World History at McGill University. Born in Madagascar, he grew up in Wales where he worked as a BBC radio producer in English and Welsh. He holds degrees in economic history from the universities of Birmingham and Wales and has taught in India (Voluntary Service Overseas) as well as at universities in Madagascar, Britain, South Africa, Belgium and France. He served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in a series of inter-governmental meetings which led to the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997. A specialist in the economic history of the Indian Ocean, he is a member of McGill’s Centre for Developing Area Studies (CDAS) and African Studies Program. He also established the Zanzibar portion of McGill’s Africa Field Studies Program in collaboration with IOWC associate Abdul Sherrif.
In addition, he is a member of the sub-Saharan Africa team of the National Geographic and IBM Genographic Project. Led by Himla Soodyall, the five-year project which began in 2005 is researching early human origins and migrations, through a combination of historical research and DNA analysis. His current research subjects include the foundations of the Indian Ocean World global economy, and slavery, migration, and diasporas in the Indian Ocean World. He has a strong interest in the dynamics of minority cultures, imperialism, globalisation and third world development.
Among his other interests are painting, poetry and prose, and following the trials and tribulations of the Welsh rugby team.
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Publications
Reviews of Selected Books
An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. African Studies Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005)
The Economic History is a major work of scholarship... a definitive work to which all future historians will be indebted
– Mervyn Brown (former British ambassador to Madagascar), Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Campbell's study... transforms our understanding of Madagascar and its place in the history of the western Indian Ocean region. It is also a model of how economic data can inform social and political historical analysis. This is a highly significant intervention in an era when economic history is battling to retain support especially among Africanists and other scholars of the colonial encounter for whom quantitative data have become unfashionable.
– Nigel Worden (University of Cape Town), EH.NET.
a substantial and thought-provoking contribution to the understanding of slavery and labor in the Indian Ocean World ... compelling argument to consider Madagascar as an integral part of the history of eastern Africa
– Alison Fletcher (Kent State University), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
a very valuable, informative ... book.
– Robert Ross (University of Leiden), Journal of African History
an economic tour de force around "Imperial Madagascar."
– Pier Larson (Johns Hopkins University), The American Historical Review
The great strength and originality of this study... lie in the surprising wealth of detailed economic information the author has unearthed about the fascinating attempt of the Merina monarchs to transform their society through education, industrialization, agricultural development, and the manufacture of their own weaponry, including cannons and firearms... Highly recommended.
J. E. Flint (emeritus, Dalhousie University), CHOICE
this study should be required reading for those who teach African and world history... One can only hope that more economic history of this calibre will be written on other parts of Africa
– Jeremy Rich (Middle Tennessee State University), Canadian Journal of History
The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series (London: Routledge) 2004
Scholar of Indian Ocean history Campbell has assembled a rich and innovative collection of essays about the meaning of slavery in countries along the littoral of the Indian Ocean from the Cape to Cairo to Calcutta to Indonesia, and stretching further east to China and Korea... the extensive footnotes from archival, published, and unpublished sources and excellent writing give this volume great heuristic value... Highly recommended
– B. Weinstein (emeritus, Howard University), CHOICE
Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region (London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003)
A rare and... useful reference book for (political) economists, students of (Southern) regionalism and strategists who wish to apply the idea of a developmental state to future regional integration in general and the Indian Ocean Rim in particular.
– Paul-Henri Bischoff (Rhodes University), H-Net
Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series (London: Routledge).
This fine collection of essays is... from a linked series of stimulating conferences on slavery and forced labour in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia that Gwyn Campbell has organized... For students of comparative slavery and abolition, as for those of the Indian ocean, this is an important contribution to the literature.
– Edward Alpers (UCLA), Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Published Books & Edited Volumes
- 2009 An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. African Studies Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) – second edition of 2005 publication.
- 2009 Co-Editor (with Suzanne Miers and Joseph Miller), Children and Slavery. vol.1: Comparative Historical Studies, Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series (Athens OH: Ohio University Press).
- 2008 Co-Editor (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Women in Slavery. Vol.2: The Modern Atlantic 'Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series' 2 vols (Athens OH: Ohio University Press)
- 2007 Co-Editor (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Women in Slavery. Vol.1: Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic 'Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series' 2 vols (Athens OH: Ohio University Press)
- 2007 Co-Editor (with Nathalie Guibert), Wine, Society and Globalization. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Wine Industry (Palgrave Macmillan: New York)
- 2006 Co-Editor (with Edward A. Alpers and Michael Salman), Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge)
- 2006 Co-Editor (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Children in European Systems of Bonded Labour – special edition of Slavery & Abolition 27.2.
- 2006 Co-Editor (with Nathalie Guibert), The impact of globalisation on the wine industry – special edition of the British Food Journal 108. 4.
- 2005 An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895: The Rise and Fall of an Island Empire. African Studies Series (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
- 2005 Editor, Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series (London: Routledge).
- 2005 Co-Editor (with Edward Alpers & Michael Salman), Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge).
- 2005 Co-Editor (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Women in Western Systems of Slavery – special edition of Slavery & Abolition 26.2.
- 2004 Editor, The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures series (London: Routledge) – also published as a special edition of Slavery & Abolition 24.2 (2003).
- 2003 Editor, Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region, Curzon-IIAS Asian Studies Series (London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon).
- 2003 Editor, The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, special edition of Slavery & Abolition 24.2.
- 1997 Editor, 1997 Directory of Scholars & Academic/Research Institutions with Interests in the Indian Ocean Rim (Johannesburg: Africa & Indian Ocean Project).
- 1995 Editor (with Pascale Belot) Me – Children’s Poetry in the New South Africa (Johannesburg: Taliesin Editions).
- 1995 Editor, 1995 Directory of Scholars & Academic/Research Institutions with Interests in the Indian Ocean Rim (Johannesburg: Africa & Indian Ocean Project)
- 1992 Editor, Eileen Baker, ‘Yan Boogie’. A Childhood in Wales in the 1920s (Johannesburg: Sigma Press).
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Articles, Chapters and Reviews
- 2008 Review of Lost People. Magic and the Legacy of Slavery in Madagascar (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007) by David Graeber, in American Historical Review 113: 1279–1280
- 2008 "Madagascar," in Clifton Crais and Peter N. Stearns (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Modern World: Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press)
- 2008 "The African Diaspora in Asia," in Kiran Kamal Prasad (ed), TADIA - The African Diaspora in Asia, Explorations on a Less Known Fact (Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana): 43-82.
- 2008 'The Indian Ocean World: Africa in the First Global Economy,' in Cultural Currents of the Indian Ocean, special issue of Transforming Cultures eJournal 3.2 : 32-44.
- 2008 "The African-Asian Diaspora: Myth or Reality?," in Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya and Jean-Pierre Angenot (eds.), Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia (Leiden: Brill): 37-56 - reprint of article in African and Asian Studies (2006).
- 2008 "Slave Trades and the Indian Ocean World," in John C. Hawley (ed.), India in Africa, Africa in India: Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanisms (Bloomington: Indian University Press): 17-51.
- 2008 Review of Thomas R. Metcalf. Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860–1920 (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2007), in Journal of British Studies 47.2: 465-467.
- 2008 (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), "Strategies of Women and Constraints of Enslavement in the Modern Americas" in Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller (eds.), Women in Slavery. Vol.2: The Modern Atlantic (Athens: Ohio University Press): 1-24.
- 2008 "Slavery and the Trans-Indian Ocean World Slave Trade: A Historical Outline," in Edward Alpers and Himanshu Ray (eds.), Cross Currents and Community Networks. The History of the Indian Ocean World (New Delhi: Oxford University Press): 273-291.
- 2007 ‘Female Bondage in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-95’ in Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Women and Slavery Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures seriesvol. 1: Africa (Athens OH: Ohio University Press)
- 2007 "Islam in Indian Ocean Africa Prior to the Scramble. A New Historical Paradigm," in Edward Simpson and Kai Kresse (eds.), Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean (London: Hurst), 1-50.
- 2007(with Nathalie Guibert), "The Impact of Globalisation on the Wine Industry," introduction to Gwyn Campbell and Nathalie Guibert (eds.), Wine, Society and Globalization. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Wine Industry (New York: Palgrave Macmillan): 1-15.
- 2007 "Domestic Demand and Export Imperatives for French and Australian Wines: A Historical Overview," in Gwyn Campbell and Nathalie Guibert (eds.), Wine, Society and Globalization. MultidisciplinaryPerspectives on the Wine Industry (New York: Palgrave Macmillan): 153-178.
- 2007 "South Africa: Wine, Black Labor and Black Empowerment," in Gwyn Campbell and Nathalie Guibert (eds.), Wine, Society and Globalization. Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Wine Industry (New York: Palgrave Macmillan): 221-240.
- 2007 ‘Slave Trades: Indian Ocean’ in John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller (eds), New Encyclopedia of Africa, Second Edition.
- 2007 "Madagascar and Western Indian Ocean, History Of (Early to 1500)," in John Middleton and Joseph C. Miller (eds), New Encyclopaedia of Africa, Second Edition (Belmont, California: Scribners/Thomson Gale), vol.3: 445-447.
- 2007(with Edward Alpers), "Introduction; Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia," in Edward Alpers, Gwyn Campbell & Michael Salman (eds.), Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge), 1-19.
- 2007 "Unfree labour, slavery and protest in imperial Madagascar," in Edward A. Alpers, Gwyn Campbell and Michael Salman (eds.), Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge), 49-59.
- 2006 ‘Islam in Indian Ocean Africa Prior to the Scramble. A New Historical Paradigm,' in K. Kresse and E. Simpson (eds.), Struggling with History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean (London: Hurst).
- 2006 ‘Children in European Systems of Slavery: Introduction’ (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Children in European Systems of Bonded Labour – special edition of Slavery & Abolition 27.2, 163-82.
- 2006 ‘Children and Slavery in the New World: A Review’, in Gwyn Campbell, Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Children in European Systems of Bonded Labour – special edition of Slavery & Abolition 27.2: 261-86.
- 2006 ‘Coffee production in Madagascar’ in William Gervase Clarence-Smith & Steven Topik (eds.), Coffee under Colonialism and Post-Colonialism:The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 67-99 – reprint of 2003 edition.
- 2006 ‘The African-Asian Diaspora: Myth or Reality?’, African and Asian Studies 5, 3-4: 305-24.
- 2006 (with Nathalie Guibert) ‘Introduction: Old World strategies against New World Competition in a globalising wine industry’ in Gwyn Campbell and Nathalie Guibert (eds.), The impact of globalisation on the wine industry – special edition of the British Food Journal 108.4: 233-42.
- 2006 ‘Revistando o debate sobre as origens malgaxes em Madagascar’ Revista Tempo 10.20: 17-32.
- 2006 Review of The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean. Shihan D. S.Jayasuriya and Richard Pankhurst (eds.), Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003 in Slavery and Abolition 27.3: 411-3.
- 2006 Review of Didier Nativel, Maisons royales, demeures des grands à Madagascar (Paris : Karthala, 2005) in the Journal of African History. 47. 1: 153-4.
- 2006 Review of Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius (Durham : Duke University Press, 2005), International Journal of African Historical Studies. 39.2, 304-7.
- 2005 ‘Unfree Labour and the significance of abolition in Madagascar, c.1825-97’ in idem (ed.), Abolition and Its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge): 66-82.
- 2005 ‘Introduction’ (with Suzanne Miers & Joseph Miller), Women in Western Systems of Slavery – special edition of Slavery & Abolition 26.2: 161-79.
- 2005 (with Edward Alpers), ‘Introduction; Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia’ in Edward Alpers, Gwyn Campbell & Michael Salman (eds.), Slavery, Forced Labour and Resistance in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge): 1-19.
- 2005 ‘The African Diaspora in Asia’ in Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, Ian Skoggard (eds.), Encyclopedia of Diasporas. Immigrant and Refugee Cultures Around the World (New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London & Moscow: Kluwer & Plenum), vol.I: 3-15.
- 2005 “The Debate over Malagasy origins,” ZIFF Journal 2: 5-14.
- 2005 Review of Dhows & the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1979 by Erik Gilbert (Oxford: James Currey, 2004) in American Historical Review 110.2: 596-7.
- 2004 ‘Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World’, introduction to Gwyn Campbell (ed.), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia (London: Routledge): vii-xxxii.
- 2004 ‘Madagascar’ in Shepard Krech III, J.R. McNeill & Carolyn Merchant (eds.), Encyclopaedia of Environmental History (New York: Routledge) II: 796-8.
- 2004 ‘Madagascar and the Europeans’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 ‘Madagascar: Colonial Period: French rule’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 ‘Madagascar: Prehistory and development to c.1500’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 ‘Madagascar: French incursions, war, treaties, colonization and conquest’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 ‘Madagascar: Evolution of the Merina kingdom’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 ‘Madagascar and the Europeans’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 ‘The Slave Trade in East Africa: Origins and Growth in the 18th Century’ in Kevin P. Shillington (ed.), Encyclopedia of African History (London: Fitzroy Dearborn).
- 2004 Review of Société et luttes anticoloniales à Madagascar (1896 à 1946). By Solofo Randrianja (Paris : Karthala, 2001), Journal of African History 45.2: 344-6.
- 2003 ‘The Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) Economic Association: history and prospects’ – introduction to Gwyn Campbell (ed.), Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region (London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon): 1-41.
- 2003 ‘The IOR and its Economic Groupings’, in Gwyn Campbell (ed.), Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region (London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon).): 220-37.
- 2003 (with R.R. Subramanian), ‘The IOR and the Strategic Importance of the Indian Ocean region in the Post-Cold War era’ in Gwyn Campbell (ed.), Southern Africa and Regional Cooperation in the Indian Ocean Region (London & New York: RoutledgeCurzon): 249-68.
- 2003 ‘Slavery and Other Forms of Unfree Labour in the Indian Ocean World’, introduction to Gwyn Campbell (ed.), The Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia – special edition of Slavery & Abolition 24.2: vii-xxxii.
- 2003 ‘Coffee production in Madagascar’ in William Gervase Clarence-Smith & Steven Topik (eds.), Coffee under Colonialism and Post-Colonialism:The Global Coffee Economy in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, 1500-1989 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 67-99.
- 2003 Review of Forget Colonialism? Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar by Jennifer Cole, American Historical Review 108.1 (February): 307-8.
- 2002 ‘Larceny in the Highlands of Madagascar’, review article in Slavery and Abolition 23.1: 137-146 – a modified version of article published in H-Africa in April 2001.
- 2002 Review of Karen Middleton (ed.), Ancestors, Power & History in Madagascar (Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 1999), African Studies Review 45:1.
- 2001 ‘Imperial Rivalry in the Western Indian Ocean and schemes to colonise Madagascar, 1769-1826’ in Lawrence Marfaing & Brigitte Reinwald (eds.), Afrikanische Beziehungen, Netzwerke und Räume (Münster : Lit Verlag): 111-30.
- 2001 Review article of History and Memory in the Age of Enslavement. Becoming Merina in Highland Madagascar, 1770-1822 by Pier M. Larson. Social History of Africa Series (Portsmouth, NH., Oxford & Cape Town: Heinemann, James Currey & David Philip, 2000) in H-Africa (April).
- 2000 ‘Madagascar and the Slave Trade in the south west Indian Ocean’ in Sandra J.T. Evers & Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing (eds.), Globalisation and the South West Indian Ocean (Leiden & Mauritius: International Institute for Asian Studies & University of Mauritius), 91-109.
- 2000 ‘Regional Integration in the Southwest Indian Ocean: History and Prospects’ in Sandra J.T. Evers & Vinesh Y. Hookoomsing (eds.), Globalisation and the South West Indian Ocean (Leiden & Mauritius: International Institute for Asian Studies & University of Mauritius): 213-28.
- 1998 ‘The Indian Ocean Rim (IOR) Economic Association: A Giant in the making?’ in Paul van der Velde & Alex McKay (eds.), New Developments in Asian Studies (London: Kegan Paul International), 361-71.
- 1998 ‘The Development of the IOR (Indian Ocean Rim) Association and its Implications for the Commonwealth’, Cultures of the Commonwealth 4: 77-98.
- 1997 ‘The Origins, Development and Future of the IOR’, International Institute forAsian Studies Yearbook.
- 1997 Review of A History of Madagascar by Mervyn Brown, Journal of African History 38.1: 159-160.
- 1996 ‘The Cocoa Frontier in Madagascar, the Comoro Islands and Réunion, c.1820-1970’ in W. G. Clarence-Smith (ed.), Cocoa Pioneer Fronts since 1800 (London: Macmillan): 195-211.
- 1996 ‘"Out of Africa": Madagascar and South Africa since the 1820s’ in Chris Alden & Jean-Pascal Daloz (eds.), Paris, Pretoria and the African Continent. The International Relations of States and Societies in Transition (London: Macmillan): 125-39.
- 1996 ‘France, Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean’, Wolhuter Mail 3: Rs5 & 10.
- 1996 ‘Theories concerning the Origins of the Malagasy’ in Marc Michel & Yvan Paillard (eds.), Australes (Paris: l’Harmattan, 1996): 127-53.
- 1996 (with R.Hewitt, A. Krause, A. Goldman & T. Jenkins) ‘ß-Globin Haplotype Analysis Suggests that a Major Source of Malagasy Ancestry is Derived from Bantu-Speaking Negroids’, American Journal of Human Genetics 58: 1303-1308.
- 1996 ‘The Origins and Demography of Slaves in Nineteenth Century Madagascar: A Chapter in the History of the African Ancestry of the Malagasy’ in François Rajaison (ed.), Fanandevozana ou esclavage (Antananarivo: Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie de l’Université d’Antananarivo) : 5-38.
- 1996 Review of Insiders and Outsiders. The Indian Working Class of Durban 1910-1990 (1995) by Bill Freund,South African Journal of Economic History 10.2: 95-6.
- 1995 Introduction to Gwyn Campbell and Pascale Belot (eds.) Me – Children’s Poetry in the New South Africa (Johannesburg: Taliesin Editions).
- 1995 (with Mario Scerri) ‘The Indian Ocean Rim - Possibilities for an Association’, South African Journal of International Affairs 2.2: 11-37.
- 1995 Review of The Delegate for Africa (1995) by Baruch Hirson & Gwyn Williams, New Welsh Review 31: 87-8.
- 1995 Review of Madagascar. World Bibliographical Series vol.165 (1993) by Hilary Bradt (with the collaboration of Mervyn Brown), Journal of African History 36.1: 170.
- 1994 ‘The History of Nineteenth Century Madagascar: "le royaume" or "l’empire"?’ Omaly sy Anio 33-36: 331-79.
- 1994 ‘The State and Pre-Colonial Demographic History: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Madagascar’ Omaly sy Anio 29-32: 189-223 (reprint of 1991 article).
- 1993 ‘The Structure of Trade in Madagascar, 1750-1810’ International Journal of African Historical Studies 26.1: 111-48.
- 1993 ‘Indians and Commerce in Madagascar, 1869-1896’ University of the Witwatersrand, African Studies Seminar Paper 345 (23 August).
- 1993 Review of A Green Estate. Restoring Independence in Madagascar by Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Journal of African History 34: 533-4.
- 1992 Introduction to Eileen Baker, ‘Yan Boogie’. A Childhood in Wales in the 1920s (Johannesburg: Sigma Press).
- 1992 ‘Crisis of Faith and Colonial Conquest. The Impact of Famine and Disease in late nineteenth-century Madagascar’ Cahiers d’Études Africaines 32 (3) 127: 409-53.
- 1992 ‘The Origins of the Malagasy’ Bulletin of the Edenvale Museum & Cultural Society.
- 1992 Review of History of Anti-Colonial Resistance and Protest in the kingdoms of Buganda and Bunyoro 1862-1899 by V. Pawliková -Vilhanová, African Studies 51.2: 304-6.
- 1991 ‘The State and Pre-colonial Demographic History: The Case of Nineteenth Century Madagascar’ Journal of African History, 32.3: 415-45.
- 1991 ‘The Menalamba Revolt and Brigandry in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-1897’ International Journal of African Historical Studies 24.2: 259-91.
- 1991 ‘An Industrial Experiment in Pre-colonial Madagascar, 1825-1861’ Journal of Southern African Studies 17.3: 525-59.
- 1991 ‘Disease, Cattle and Slaves: The Development of Trade between Natal and Madagascar, 1875-1904’ African Economic History 19 (1990-91): 105-33.
- 1990 ‘A Estrutura do Comércio Marítimo de Inhambane nos meados do século XIX’ Arquivo – Boletim do Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique 7: 151-62.
- 1990 ‘Ratsiraka’s Dilemma and the South African-Malagasy Rapprochement’ published under the title ‘An island where the sky fell in’ The Daily Mail – Johannesburg (23 August).
- 1990 ‘Madagascar and South Africa - The Historical Connection’ published under the title ‘Madagascan [sic] ties that go back 300 years’ The Daily Mail – Johannesburg (23 August).
- 1989 ‘Madagascar and Mozambique in the Slave Trade of the Western Indian Ocean, 1800-1861’ in W.G. Clarence-Smith (ed.),The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century (London: Frank Cass): 166-93.
- 1989 ‘The East African Slave Trade, 1861-1895: The "Southern" Complex’ International Journal of African Historical Studies 22.1: 1-27.
- 1989 ‘Madagascar, the "Missing Link" in the East African Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century’ Bulletin (HSRC) 1.7: 2.
- 1988 ‘Missionaries, Fanompoana and the Menalamba Revolt in late nineteenth century Madagascar’ Journal of Southern African Studies 15.1: 54-73.
- 1988 ‘Slavery and Fanompoana: The Structure of Forced Labour in Imerina (Madagascar), 1790-1861’ Journal of African History 29.3: 463-86.
- 1988 ‘Currency Crisis, Missionaries, and the French Takeover in Madagascar, 1861-1895’ International Journal of African Historical Studies 21.2: 273-89.
- 1988 ‘Madagascar and Mozambique in the Slave Trade of the Western Indian Ocean, 1800-1861’ Slavery and Abolition 9.3: 165-92.
- 1988 ‘Gold Mining and the French Takeover of Madagascar, 1883-1914’ African Economic History 17: 1-28.
- 1988 Review of Norwegian Missions in African History, Vol.2: Madagascar (Oslo,1986). Ed. Finn Fuglestad and Jarle Simensen, Journal of African History 29.2: 563.
- 1987 ‘The Adoption of Autarky in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-1835’ Journal of African History 28.3: 395-411.
- 1987 ‘The Role of the Merina State in the Decline of the Imperial Merina Economy, 1875-1895’ in Clive Dewey (ed.), The State and the Market: Studies in the Economic and Social History of the Third World (New Delhi: Manohar): 2-23.
- 1986 ‘The Monetary and Financial Crisis of the Merina Empire, 1810-1826’ South African Journal of Economic History I.1: 99-118.
- 1986 ‘Toamasina (Tamatave) and the Growth of Foreign Trade in Imperial Madagascar, 1862-1895’ in Gerhard Liesegang et al. (eds.), Figuring African Trade (Berlin): 525-56.
- 1985 Review of Le Menabe - histoire d’une colonisation by Bernard Schlemmer, International Journal of African Historical Studies 18.2: 335-6.
- 1984 ‘Madagascar and the Slave Trade, 1810-1895’ Omaly sy Anio, 17-20: 279-310 – reprint of 1981 article.
- 1984 Review of Les souverains de Madagascar, edited by Françoise Raison-Jourde, Journal of African History 25: 473-5.
- 1982 ‘Problèmes de main-d’oeuvre et de transport à Madagascar au XIXe siècle (1810-1895)’, Omaly sy Anio, 16: 21-39 - translation of 1980 article.
- 1981 ‘Madagascar and the Slave Trade, 1810-1895’ Journal of African History 22.2: 203-27.
- 1981 Review of Changements sociaux dans l’ouest malgache edited by G. Sautter, Journal of African History 22: 573.
- 1980 ‘Labour and the Transport Problem in Imperial Madagascar, 1810-1895’ Journal of African History 21.3: 341-56.
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