Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850-1960 (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Frankema, Ewout; Booth, Anne

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

How colonial governments in Asia and Africa financed their activities and why fiscal systems varied across colonies reveals the nature and long-term effects of colonial rule.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108639309
• Artikelnr.: 70909529

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.