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Taxing Colonial Africa - The Political Economy of British Imperialism (Hardcover)
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Taxing Colonial Africa - The Political Economy of British Imperialism (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
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How much did the British Empire cost, and how did Britain pay for
it? Taxing Colonial Africa explores a source of funds much
neglected in research on the financial structure of the Empire,
namely revenue raised in the colonies themselves. Requiring
colonies to be financially self-sufficient was one of a range of
strategies the British government used to lower the cost of
imperial expansion to its own Treasury. Focusing on British
colonies in Africa, Leigh Gardner examines how their efforts to
balance their budgets influenced their relationships with local
political stakeholders as well as the imperial government. She
finds that efforts to balance the budget shaped colonial public
policy at every level, and that compromises made in the face of
financial constraints shaped the political and economic
institutions that were established by colonial administrations and
inherited by the former colonies at independence.
Using both quantitative data on public revenue and expenditure as
well as archival records from archives in both the UK and the
former colonies, Gardner follows the development of fiscal policies
in British Africa from the beginning of colonial rule through the
first years of independence. During the formative years of colonial
administration, both the structure of taxation and the allocation
of public spending reflected the two central goals of colonial
rule: maintaining order as cheaply as possible and encouraging
export production. Taxing Colonial Africa examines how the fiscal
systems established before 1914 coped with the upheavals of
subsequent decades, including the two World Wars, the Great
Depression, and finally the transfer of power.
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