Klas Rönnbäck
About Klas Rönnbäck
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Research areas
- Economic development
- Colonialism
- Slavery
- Capitalism
Research in progress
- Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Institutions and wealth inequality in a Caribbean plantation economy, 1750s to 1917, 2019-01 - 2022-12
- Imperial Profits: The return on investments in Africa, 1869-1969, 2016-12 - 2020-12
Teaching areas
- Global economic history
- Economic history of slavery
Selected publications
Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold Coast
Rönnbäck, Klas
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth century
Rönnbäck, Klas, Theodoridis, Dimitrios
Economic history review, 2018
Scandinavia in the Atlantic World
Rönnbäck, Klas
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History, Oxford University Press, 2018
On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added approach
Rönnbäck, Klas
Journal of Global History, 13:3, s. 309-327, 2018
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869-1969
Rönnbäck, Klas, Broberg, Oskar
-
A colonial cash cow: the return on investments in British Malaya,
1889-1969
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg, Stefania Galli
Cliometrica - 2021-01-01 -
Governance, value-added and rents in plantation
slavery-based
value-chains
Klas Rönnbäck
Slavery & Abolition - 2021-01-01 -
Land distribution and Inequality in a Black Settler Colony: The case of Sierra Leone,
1792-1831
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
Economic history review - 2021-01-01 -
The Built Environment of the Precolonial West African Coast: Materials, Functions and Housing
Standards
Klas Rönnbäck
Journal of West African History - 2020-01-01 -
Colonialism and rural inequality in Sierra Leone: an egalitarian
experiment
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Review of Economic History - 2020-01-01 -
Factor endowments and international trade: a study of land embodied in trade on the Baltic Sea region,
1750–1856
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck, Werner Scheltjens
European Review of Economic History - 2020-01-01 -
Aednan och Bolaget: ett kolonialt perspektiv på gruvbrytning i Sápmi vid 1900-talets
början
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
Historisk Tidskrift - 2020-01-01 -
Swedish East India trade in a value-added analysis, c.
1730-1800
Klas Rönnbäck, L. Muller
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2020-01-01 -
Internationell handel och handelspolitik – Om handelns vinnare och
förlorare
Ellen Hillbom, Klas Rönnbäck
Lena Andersson-Skog, Oskar Broberg, Rodney Edvinsson, Kerstin Enflo & Kristina Lilja (eds., 2020): Vad är ekonomisk historia? - 2020-01-01 -
Vestindien: St. Croix, St. Thomas og St. Jan (Danmark og
kolonierne)
Klas Rönnbäck
Historisk Tidsskrift - 2020-01-01 -
The Crumble in the Jungle: The London Financial Press and the Boom-and-Bust Cycles of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation,
1895–1914
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
Enterprise & society - 2020-01-01 -
The business of barter on the pre-colonial Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
Economic History of Developing Regions - 2020-01-01 -
The Slave Trades out of
Africa
Klas Rönnbäck
Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds), The History of African Development - 2020-01-01 -
Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Comparative evidence on wealth inequality in the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth
century
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
Swedish Economic History Conferece, Uppsala - 2019-01-01 -
Kolonialism, kapital och ekonomisk
utveckling
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
Ekonomisk Debatt - 2019-01-01 -
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’: Wages and Migration from Europe to the Gold Coast in the Eighteenth
Century
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefan Öberg, Stefania Galli
Journal of Migration History - 2019-01-01 -
Enlightenment, Scientific Exploration and Abolitionism Anders Sparrman’s and Carl Bernhard Wadström’s colonial encounters in Senegal, 1787–1788 and the British abolitionist
movement
Klas Rönnbäck
The Moment is Now: Carl Bernhard Wadström’s Revolutionary Voice on Human Trafficking and the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Edited by Anders Hallengren - 2019-01-01 -
Reversal of fortune or persistence of wealth? Comparative evidence on wealth inequality in the Danish West Indies in the mid-nineteenth
century
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Historical Economics Society Conferece, Paris - 2019-01-01 -
Capital and Colonialism: The Return on British Investments in Africa
1869-1969
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
- 2019-01-01 -
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth
century
Klas Rönnbäck, Dimitrios Theodoridis
Economic history review - 2019-01-01 -
On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century: a value-added
approach
Klas Rönnbäck
Journal of Global History - 2018-01-01 -
Scandinavia in the Atlantic
World
Klas Rönnbäck
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History - 2018-01-01 -
The Speed of Early Modern Shipping in the Baltic – a Tentative Exploration using
STRO
Klas Rönnbäck
Jan Willem Veluwenkamp and Werner Scheltjens (eds.), Early Modern Shipping and Trade: Novel Approaches Using Sound Toll Registers Online - 2018-01-01 -
All that glitters is not gold: The return on British investments in South Africa,
1869-1969
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics - 2018-01-01 -
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth
century
Klas Rönnbäck, Dimitrios Theodoridis
XVIII World Economic History Conference, Boston, USA - 2018-01-01 -
Factor endowments, ghost acreages and international trade networks: a study of land embodied in Baltic trade,
1750-1850
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck, Werner Scheltjens
XVIII World Economic History Conference, Boston, USA - 2018-01-01 -
The economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy in the eighteenth century: a value-added
approach
Klas Rönnbäck
XVIII World Economic History Conference, Boston, USA - 2018-01-01 -
The challenge of studying inflation in pre-colonial
Africa
Klas Rönnbäck
History in Africa - A Journal of Method - 2018-01-01 -
Land Inequality in an Egalitarian Utopia: the case of Sierra Leone in the early 19th
century
Stefania Galli, Klas Rönnbäck
European Economic History Society Conference - 2017-01-01 -
The rhythm of life and work: Introduction to a special issue in honor of Professor Christer
Lundh
Stefan Öberg, Susanna Fellman, Klas Rönnbäck
Essays in Economic and Business History - 2017-01-01 -
Socioeconomic Differences in Mortality among European Settlers in Pre-Colonial Western
Africa
Stefan Öberg, Klas Rönnbäck
Essays in Economic & Business History - 2017-01-01 -
The sink as a source: safeguarding the raw water source of Gothenburg, Sweden, 1860 to
1980
Klas Rönnbäck
Environment and History - 2017-01-01 -
Historicizing the environmental Kuznets Curve: water pollution in Göta Älv, Sweden,
1895–2000
Klas Rönnbäck, Staffan Granér
Water History - 2016-01-01 -
Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa: The Case of the Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
- 2016-01-01 -
Imperial profits – the return on British investments in Africa,
1869-1969
Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg
VI Annual Meeting of the African Economic History Network - 2016-01-01 -
Pre-colonial West African Inflation,
Again
Klas Rönnbäck
African Studies Association 2016 Conference - 2016-01-01 -
Mortality among European settlers in pre-colonial West Africa: The “White Man’s Grave”
revisited
Stefan Öberg, Klas Rönnbäck
- 2016-01-01 -
Colonial Institutions and Pre-Industrial Inequality: rural Sierra Leone in 1831, the most equal society of its
time
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli
6th African Economic History Network Meeting - 2016-01-01 -
Factor endowments and the Baltic trade – “Ghost acreage“ calculations based on
STRO
Dimitrios Theodoridis, Klas Rönnbäck, Scheltjens Werner
Transport statistics in pre- and early industrial economic history: The challenges and opportunities of Sound Toll Registers Online International Conference, 26-28 Oct. 2016, Leipzig - 2016-01-01 -
African agricultural productivity and the transatlantic slave trade: evidence from Senegambia in the nineteenth
century
Klas Rönnbäck, Dimitrios Theodoridis
African Economic History Network, VI Annual Conference 21-22 Oct. 2016, Brighton, UK - 2016-01-01 -
Colonial Institutions and Pre-Industrial Inequality: rural Sierra Leone in 1831, the most equal society of its
time
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli
2nd European Society of Historical Demography Conference, 21-24 September 2016, Leuven - 2016-01-01 -
Transaction costs of early modern multinational enterprise: measuring the transatlantic information lag of the British Royal African Company and its successor,
1680–1818
Klas Rönnbäck
Business History - 2016-01-01 -
Waged Slavery – Incentivizing Unfree Labour at Cape Coast Castle in the Eighteenth
Century
Klas Rönnbäck
Slavery & Abolition - 2016-01-01 -
The transatlantic slave trade and social stratification on the Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
Economic History of Developing Regions - 2015-01-01 -
Kåre Lauring, Slaverne dansede og holdt sig lystige: en fortælling om den danske
slavehandel
Klas Rönnbäck
Sjuttonhundratal - 2015-01-01 -
Joachim Östlund, Saltets
pris
Klas Rönnbäck
Historisk Tidskrift - 2015-01-01 -
Sean Stilwell, Slavery and slaving in African
history
Klas Rönnbäck
Economic history review - 2015-01-01 -
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’ - Compensating Wage Differentials and Epidemiological Risk on the 18th century Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefania Galli, Stefan Öberg
10th New Frontiers in African Economic History Workshop, 30-31 October 2015, Wageningen 2015 - 2015-01-01 -
The transatlantic slave trade and social stratification on the Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
World Economic History Congress. 3-7 August 2015. Kyoto, Japan. - 2015-01-01 -
Working in the ‘White Man’s Grave’ - Compensating Wage Differentials and Epidemiological Risk on the 18th century Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck, Stefan Öberg, Stefania Galli
11th European Historical Economics Society Conference, 4-5 September 2015, Pisa - 2015-01-01 -
The White Man’s Grave revisited - settler mortality rates on the pre-colonial Gold
Coast
Stefan Öberg, Klas Rönnbäck
11th European Historical Economics Society Conference - 2015-01-01 -
Slavskeppet Brooks och myten om den rationella kapitalismens
humanism
Klas Rönnbäck
Ord & Bild - 2015-01-01 -
Copper sheathing and the British slave
trade
Peter Solar, Klas Rönnbäck
Economic history review - 2015-01-01 -
Interest-group lobbying for free trade: an empirical case study of international trade policy
formation
Klas Rönnbäck
Journal of International Trade and Economic Development - 2015-01-01 -
The Idle and the Industrious: European Ideas about the African Work Ethic in Pre-colonial West
Africa
Klas Rönnbäck
History in Africa - A Journal of Method - 2014-01-01 -
SWEET BUSINESS: QUANTIFYING THE VALUE ADDED IN THE BRITISH COLONIAL SUGAR TRADE IN THE 18TH
CENTURY
Klas Rönnbäck
Revista De Historia Economica - 2014-01-01 -
Climate, conflicts and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple
crops
Klas Rönnbäck
Economic history review - 2014-01-01 -
Sweet Business – Quantifying the Value-Added in the British Colonial Sugar Trade in the Eighteenth
Century
Klas Rönnbäck
Revista de Historia Económica - Journal of Iberian and Latin American Economic History - 2014-01-01 -
’The Men Seldom Suffer a Woman to Sit Down’: The Historical Development of the Stereotype of the ‘Lazy
African’
Klas Rönnbäck
African Studies - 2014-01-01 -
Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast: a quantitative estimate of African laborers’ welfare
ratios
Klas Rönnbäck
European Review of Economic History - 2014-01-01 -
Slave ownership and fossil fuel usage – a
commentary
Klas Rönnbäck
Climatic Change - 2014-01-01 -
Atlantic Early-Modern Migrations and Economic
Globalization
Klas Rönnbäck
Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration - 2013-01-01 -
Climate, conflicts and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple
crops
Klas Rönnbäck
Crossroads in African Studies, Birmingham, 4-6 September 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Climate, conflicts and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple
crops
Klas Rönnbäck
European Historical Economics Society Conference, London, 6th and 7th September 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Climate, conflicts and variations in prices on pre-colonial West African markets for staple
crops
Klas Rönnbäck
Svenska Ekonomisk-Historiska Mötet 2013, Lund 4-5 Oktober 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Profiting from the production of
sugar
Klas Rönnbäck
ASOCIACIÓN DE HISTORIA ECONÓMICA DEL CARIBE (AHEC) II CONGRESO, June 26- 29, 2013 - 2013-01-01 -
Triangelhandeln i
Atlanten
Klas Rönnbäck
Katarina Streiffert Eikeland & Madelaine Miller (red.), En maritim värld – från stenåldern till idag. - 2013-01-01 -
Enlightenment, Scientific Exploration and Abolitionism Anders Sparrman’s and Carl Bernhard Wadström’s colonial encounters in Senegal, 1787–1788 and the British abolitionist
movement
Klas Rönnbäck
Slavery & Abolition - 2013-01-01 -
An end and a new beginning: disintegration of inter-continental commodity markets during the Revolutionary Era, 1770s to
1820s
Klas Rönnbäck
Jahrbuch für europäische Überseegeschichte - 2012-01-01 -
Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
The global and long-term development of real wages: methods, problems and possibilities, workshop, Amsterdam, november 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold
Coast
Klas Rönnbäck
World Economic History Congress, Stellenbosch, july 2012 - 2012-01-01 -
The Speed of Ships and Shipping Productivity in the Age of
Sail
Klas Rönnbäck
European Review of Economic History - 2012-01-01 -
Power, Plenty and Pressure groups: A comparative study of British and Danish Colonialism in the West Indies and the Role of the State,
1768-1772
Klas Rönnbäck
Journal of Early American History - 2011-01-01 -
Consumers and slavery: diversified markets for plantation produce and the survival of slavery in the 19th
century
Klas Rönnbäck
Fernand Braudel Center Review - 2011-01-01 -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
1895-2000
Klas Rönnbäck, Staffan Granér
Ekonomisk-historiska mötet 2011 - 2011-01-01 -
Konsumenter och
slaveri
Klas Rönnbäck
Svenska Historikermötet 2011: Koloniala drömmar och merkantilistisk praktik. Svenskt 1700-tal i Medelhavet och på Atlanten. - 2011-01-01 -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
1895-2000
Klas Rönnbäck, Staffan Granér
The Adlerbert Research Foundation Jubilee Conference, Gothenburg, 2011 - 2011-01-01 -
The Speed of Ocean Shipping and Shipping Productivity, c.
1625–1862
Klas Rönnbäck
European Historical Economics Society Conference, Dublin, 2011 - 2011-01-01 -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River A Pilot Study of Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve
1895-2000
Staffan Granér, Klas Rönnbäck
- 2011-01-01 -
Economic Growth and Clean Water in the Göta River - Collective Action and the Environmental Kuznets Curve,
1895-2000
Klas Rönnbäck, Staffan Granér
American Society for Environmental History Annual Conference - 2011-01-01 -
Who Stood to Gain from Colonialism? A Case Study of Early Modern European Colonialism in the
Caribbean
Klas Rönnbäck
Small is Beautiful? Interlopers and Smaller Trading Nations in the Pre-industrial Period. Edited by Markus A. Denzel, Jan de Vries, and Philipp Robinson Rössner - 2011-01-01 -
Productivity change in early modern shipping – speed of shipping in the Baltic
trade
Klas Rönnbäck
Soundtoll Registers Online. To the Test, Leeuwarden, 28-29 October, 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
Who Stood to Gain from Colonialism? A Case Study of Early Modern European Colonialism in the
Caribbean
Klas Rönnbäck
Social Science History Association, 35th Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 18-21 2010 - 2010-01-01 -
The Sound Toll Chamber Commodity Records: estimating the reliability of a potential source to international trade
history
Klas Rönnbäck
International Journal of Maritime History - 2010-01-01 -
An early-modern consumer revolution in the
Baltic?
Klas Rönnbäck
Scandinavian Journal of History - 2010-01-01 -
Balancing the Baltic trade: colonial commodities in the trade on the Baltic ,
1773-1856
Klas Rönnbäck
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2010-01-01 -
New and old peripheries - Britain, the Baltic and the Americas in the Great
Divergence
Klas Rönnbäck
Journal of Global History - 2010-01-01 -
The French block and the Swedish hunt for
colonies
Klas Rönnbäck
(re)searching Gothenburg: essays on a changing city (Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn & Mattias Wahlström, eds.) - 2010-01-01 -
Franska tomten och den svenska jakten på
kolonier
Klas Rönnbäck
Göteborg utforskat: Studier av en stad i förändring (Helena Holgersson, Catharina Thörn, Håkan Thörn & Mattias Wahlström, red.) - 2010-01-01 -
Från Saint Domingue till Göteborg – kolonialvaror och konsumtion i 1700-talets
Sverige
Klas Rönnbäck
1700-talets Göteborg (red.Charlotta Dohlvik, Jenny Johansson & Christian Peralva) - 2010-01-01 -
From Saint Domingue to the Baltic: diversified markets for plantation produce, and the semiperipheral exploitation of
slaves
Klas Rönnbäck
From the Northern Seas to the Atlantic: Cities, ecology and exchange; 19 March 2010; IHR, London, Britain - 2010-01-01 -
Power, Plenty and Pressure groups: British and Danish colonialism in the West Indies and the role of the state,
1768-1772
Klas Rönnbäck
(Trans) colonial (trans) imperial and Atlantic trade in the 18th Century, March 11, 2010, EHESS, Paris, France - 2010-01-01 -
Christoper Ebert: Between
empires
Klas Rönnbäck
Itinerario - 2010-01-01 -
Commerce and Colonisation: Studies of Early Modern Merchant Capitalism in the Atlantic
Economy
Klas Rönnbäck
- 2009-01-01 -
An early-modern consumer revolution in the
Baltic?
Klas Rönnbäck
Consumption, power and culture in the early modern Atlantic world, June 4-5, 2009, Åbo Akademi, Finland - 2009-01-01 -
Who stood to gain from colonialism? A case study of early modern European colonialism in the
Caribbean
Klas Rönnbäck
World Economic History Congree, Utrecht 2009 - 2009-01-01 -
Socker och slavplantager i svensk
historia
Klas Rönnbäck
Global historia från periferin. Norden 1600-1850. Red. Leos Müller, Göran Rydén & Holger Weiss - 2009-01-01 -
Who stood to gain from colonialism? A case study of early modern European colonialism in the
Caribbean
Klas Rönnbäck
Itinerario - International Journal on the History of European Expansion and Global Interaction - 2009-01-01 -
Erik Ringmar, Why Europe Was
First.
Klas Rönnbäck
Itinerario - 2009-01-01 -
Integration of global commodity markets in the early-modern
era
Klas Rönnbäck
European Review of Economic History - 2009-01-01 -
En amputerad
historia
Klas Rönnbäck
Ord & Bild - 2008-01-01 -
Dick Harrison, Slaveri – 1500 till
1800
Klas Rönnbäck
Historisk tidskrift - 2008-01-01 -
Profits from colonialism in the Americas – a semiperipheral
perspective
Klas Rönnbäck
Graduate Student Research Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean, november 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
Transforming consumption in the European periphery – colonial commodities in Scandinavia during the early modern
era
Klas Rönnbäck
European Business History Association 12th annual conference - 2008-01-01 -
Counter-weight and complement: economic and cultural aspects of the Swedish imports of colonial
commodities
Klas Rönnbäck
Svenska Historikermötet 2008 - 2008-01-01 -
Sveriges koloniala
spöke
Klas Rönnbäck
Ord & Bild - 2008-01-01 -
Clé Lesger, The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information
Exchange
Klas Rönnbäck
Scandinavian Economic History Review - 2008-01-01 -
The price of sugar in Sweden : Data, source &
methods
Klas Rönnbäck
- 2007-01-01 -
From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th
centuries
Klas Rönnbäck
- 2007-01-01 -
Free-riding on European colonialism - Swedish trade in colonial sugar during the early modern
era
Klas Rönnbäck
Seventh Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Lund, juni 2007 - 2007-01-01 -
From extreme luxury to everyday commodity - – sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th
centuries
Klas Rönnbäck
Ekonomisk-historiska mötet, Stockholm, oktober 2007 - 2007-01-01 -
"Alltid något att visa upp för nationens ögon" - Franska tomten och den svenska jakten på
kolonier
Klas Rönnbäck
Ord & Bild - 2007-01-01 -
Dick Harrison - Slaveri: från forntid till
renässansen
Klas Rönnbäck
Historisk tidskrift - 2007-01-01 -
Kolonialismens söta smak - Svensk och dansk handel med kolonialvaror under tidigmodern
tid
Klas Rönnbäck
Hans Albin Larsson (red.): Aktuellt om historia. Forskningsfronten flyttar fram. Närings- och handelshistoria. - 2007-01-01 -
Ole Justesen (red.), Danish sources for the history of Ghana
1657–1754
Klas Rönnbäck
Historisk tidskrift - 2007-01-01 -
Flexibility and protectionism - Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern
era
Klas Rönnbäck
Christer Ahlberger & Pia Lundqvist (red.): Varans vägar och världar - Handel och konsumtion i Skandinavien ca 1600-1900 - 2007-01-01 -
James Rawley, The transatlantic slave
trade
Klas Rönnbäck
Historisk tidskrift - 2007-01-01 -
Flexibility and protectionism. Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern
era
Klas Rönnbäck
- 2006-01-01