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Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850-1960 (Paperback)
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Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850-1960 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context
of colonial state formation and the changing world order between
1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European
colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to
coastal and island settlements, which functioned as little more
than trading posts. The officials running these settlements had
neither the resources nor the need to develop new fiscal
instruments. With the expansion of imperialism, the costs of
maintaining colonies rose. Home governments, reluctant to place the
financial burden of imperial expansion on metropolitan taxpayers,
pressed colonial governments to become fiscally self-supporting. A
team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how
colonial states set up their administrative systems and how these
regimes involved local people and elites. They shed new light on
the political economy of colonial state formation and the
institutional legacies they left behind at independence.
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