Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, C.18501960

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Ewout 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Ewout (Wageningen Universiteit Frankema
• Mitarbeit: Anne Booth (Herausgeber), Anne (School of Oriental and African Studies Booth (Herausgeber), Booth Anne (Herausgeber), Ewout Frankema (Herausgeber), Ewout (Wageningen Universiteit Frankema (Herausgeber), Frankema Ewout (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781108494267
• ISBN: 978-1-108-49426-7
• Seiten: 242
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Allgemeines, Lexika; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Asia / General, HISTORY / Africa / General, Economic history, Asian History, African History