Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960

Herausgeber: Booth, Anne; Frankema, Ewout

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through the lens of fiscal capacity building, a team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems in operations that involved local people and elites. This sheds light on the political economic context of colonial state formation, and the long-term effects of colonial rule.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781108714297
• ISBN-10: 1108714293
• Artikelnr.: 64462258

Inhaltsangabe

1. Fiscal capacity and the Colonial State. Lessons from a comparative
perspective Ewout Frankema and Anne Booth; 2. Towards a modern fiscal state
in Southeast Asia, c. 1900-60 Anne Booth; 3. Why was British India a
limited state? Tirthankar Roy; 4. Indigenous and colonial institutions in
the fiscal development of French Indochina Montserrat López Jerez; 5.
Fiscal development in Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria: was Japanese colonialism
different? Anne Booth and Kent Deng; 6. From coast to hinterland. Fiscal
capacity building in British and French West Africa, c. 1880-1960 Ewout
Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg; 7. New colonies, old tools. Building
fiscal systems in East and Central Africa Leigh Gardner; 8. Local
conditions and metropolitan visions: fiscal policies and practices in
Portuguese Africa, c.1850-1970 Kleoniki Alexopoulou; 9. How mineral
discoveries shaped the fiscal system of South Africa Abel Gwaindepi and
Krige Siebrits.