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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ewout Frankema (Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands) , Anne Booth (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)Publisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9781108714297ISBN 10: 1108714293 Pages: 319 Publication Date: 29 September 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. 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 Lopez 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.ReviewsAuthor InformationEwout Frankema is Professor and Chair of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal of Global History and research fellow of the UK Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Anne Booth is Professor Emerita at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She has researched on the economies of Southeast Asia in both the colonial and post-colonial eras, and has written and edited a number of books on the region as well as articles in journals. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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