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- The first book to synthesize migration history in Africa from the
early 19th to the early 21st century -Cross-disciplinary approach
makes it suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students
across a range of social sciences subjects -Coverage is diverse
across time (19th-21st centuries), geographies (migration systems
are compared and contrasted across the continent), and themes
(covering forced & voluntary migration, rural & urban,
sudden ruptures (eg war) & more gradual changes).
Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies
in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial
institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study
across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading
international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy
of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian
economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the
twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world
power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and
endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of
Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development
outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features
and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to
contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial
institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence
in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative
colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the
comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and
Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated
comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature
analyzing the marked differences in economic and political
development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era.
Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign
investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and
mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and
scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and
development economics.
- The first book to synthesize migration history in Africa from the
early 19th to the early 21st century -Cross-disciplinary approach
makes it suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students
across a range of social sciences subjects -Coverage is diverse
across time (19th-21st centuries), geographies (migration systems
are compared and contrasted across the continent), and themes
(covering forced & voluntary migration, rural & urban,
sudden ruptures (eg war) & more gradual changes).
Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies
in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial
institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study
across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading
international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy
of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian
economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the
twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world
power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and
endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of
Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development
outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features
and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to
contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial
institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence
in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative
colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the
comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and
Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated
comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature
analyzing the marked differences in economic and political
development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era.
Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign
investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and
mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and
scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and
development economics.
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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