“Bring Back the English”: The Legacy of British Trade on the Southern Gabonese Coast in the Concessionary Era, 1900–1914
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Long tied to Portuguese and British trading networks, southern coastal Gabonese people found themselves under the domination of rapacious concessionary companies granted a monopoly over trade in 1900 by the French colonial government. Concessionary companies relied on force and deception to obtain ivory and rubber from southern Gabonese coastal communities, who had previously enriched themselves as middlemen with European traders. Concessionary officials took advantage of contradictory state policies to protect their monopoly while failing to promote the economy. Southern Gabonese people turned to memories of British traders to criticize concessionary firms. British and American journalists wrote exposés of French concessionary firms that highlighted British ideals of free trade, but also showed how southern Gabonese communities tried to regain their control over trade by invoking British traders for their respect for Africans. This case thus examines a battle between older British-dominated Atlantic trade ties with French efforts to ensure control over Gabonese commerce.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".