Robin Law

2.8k total citations
71 papers, 997 citations indexed

About

Robin Law is a scholar working on Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Robin Law has authored 71 papers receiving a total of 997 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Anthropology, 11 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Robin Law's work include African history and culture studies (44 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (38 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (36 papers). Robin Law is often cited by papers focused on African history and culture studies (44 papers), Colonialism, slavery, and trade (38 papers) and Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (36 papers). Robin Law collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Canada and Philippines. Robin Law's co-authors include Joseph C. Miller, P. E. H. Hair, Kristin Mann, Paul E. Lovejoy, David Northrup, David Skinner, Adam Jones, Boubacar Barry, Ayi Kwei Armah and Harold K. Schneider and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The American Historical Review and The International Journal of African Historical Studies.

In The Last Decade

Robin Law

62 papers receiving 688 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robin Law United Kingdom	18	672	324	109	100	91	71	997
Phyllis M. Martin United States	15	510 0.8×	410 1.3×	109 1.0×	73 0.7×	55 0.6×	51	930
Philip D. Morgan United States	17	554 0.8×	414 1.3×	108 1.0×	126 1.3×	182 2.0×	48	966
A. J. R. Russell‐Wood United States	14	490 0.7×	228 0.7×	67 0.6×	101 1.0×	106 1.2×	69	865
John K. Thornton United States	20	1.1k 1.6×	450 1.4×	142 1.3×	149 1.5×	190 2.1×	92	1.5k
Suzanne Miers United States	16	689 1.0×	468 1.4×	206 1.9×	49 0.5×	81 0.9×	49	1.0k
Marcus Rediker United States	14	553 0.8×	601 1.9×	195 1.8×	186 1.9×	179 2.0×	51	1.3k
Hilary Beckles Barbados	16	359 0.5×	414 1.3×	69 0.6×	84 0.8×	322 3.5×	61	810
B. W. Higman Jamaica	21	575 0.9×	459 1.4×	64 0.6×	151 1.5×	390 4.3×	66	1.1k
John J. TePaske United States	17	396 0.6×	150 0.5×	158 1.4×	106 1.1×	107 1.2×	76	951
John Tutino United States	14	219 0.3×	191 0.6×	191 1.8×	57 0.6×	116 1.3×	56	595

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20 of 20 papers shown

Law, Robin. (2018). The Horse in West African History. 5 indexed citations

Law, Robin. (2016). The English Interpreters in Dahomey, 1843–1852. The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History. 44(5). 730–751. 1 indexed citations

Law, Robin. (2004). Ouidah. 33 indexed citations

Law, Robin. (2003). The operation of the slave trade in Africa. 1 indexed citations

Conrad, Douglas, Philip D. Curtin, J. D. Fage, et al.. (1999). HIA volume 26 Cover and Front matter. History in Africa. 26. f1–f7. 1 indexed citations

Law, Robin, Boubacar Barry, & Ayi Kwei Armah. (1999). Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. The American Historical Review. 104(1). 292–292. 30 indexed citations

Law, Robin & Kristin Mann. (1999). West Africa in the Atlantic Community: The Case of the Slave Coast. The William and Mary Quarterly. 56(2). 307–307. 48 indexed citations

Law, Robin. (1997). The English in West Africa 1681-1683. Oxford University Press eBooks. 3 indexed citations

Law, Robin, et al.. (1995). From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 88 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1995). An African response to abolition: Anglo‐Dahomian negotiations on ending the slave trade, 1838–77. Slavery and Abolition. 16(3). 281–310. 4 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1994). ‘Here is No Resisting the Country’. The Realities of Power in Afro-European Relations on the West African ‘Slave Coast’. Itinerario. 18(2). 50–64. 13 indexed citations

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Miller, Joseph C. & Robin Law. (1993). The Slave Coast of West Africa 1550-1750: The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on an African Society.. The American Historical Review. 98(5). 1656–1656. 72 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1993). The Royal African Company of England's West African Correspondence, 1681-1699. History in Africa. 20. 173–184.

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Law, Robin. (1991). The slave coast of West Africa, 1550-1750. 18 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1988). African Economic History: Internal Development and External Dependency. African Affairs. 87(348). 472–474. 9 indexed citations

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Law, Robin, et al.. (1988). African Revolutionary: The Life and Times of Nigeria's Aminu Kano. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 22(2). 347–347. 3 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1987). Problems of Plagiarism, Harmonization and Misunderstanding in Contemporary European Sources. Early (Pre-1680s) Sources for the Slave Coast of West Africa in European Sources for Sub-Saharan Africa before 1900 : Use and Abuse.. Paideuma. 33. 337–358. 7 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1981). For Marx, but with Reservations About Althusser: A Comment on Bernstein and Depelchin. History in Africa. 8. 247–251. 2 indexed citations

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Lovejoy, Paul E. & Robin Law. (1981). The Oyo Empire c. 1600-c. 1836: A West African Imperialism in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines. 15(1). 139–139. 10 indexed citations

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Law, Robin. (1978). The Career of Adele at Lagos and Badagry, c.1807-c.1837. Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria. 9(2). 35–59. 9 indexed citations

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