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

ISBN-13: 9781108494267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 242 str.

Ewout Frankema; Anne Booth

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.