Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire

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Political Power and Social Theory ; v.28

Political Power and Social Theory Ser ; v.28

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Front Cover; Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Contributors; Senior Editorial Board; Student Editorial Board; Editorial Statement; Series Editor's Introduction; Introduction: Old (Patrimonial) Political Forms Made New; Acknowledgment; References; Patrimonialism in America: The Public Domain in the Making of Modernity - From Colonial Times to the Late Nineteenth Century; Patrimonialism in North America; Colonial Patrimonialism; Speculators, Settlers, and the Federal Domain; Federal Lands and the Railroads; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References

Explaining the Great Continuity: Ethnic Institutions, Colonialism, and Social Development in Spanish AmericaA Great Reversal or a Great Continuity?; Are Precolonial Institutions a Source of Underdevelopment?; Is Geography the Explanation?; The Institutions of Ethnic Stratification; Ethnicity and Social Development in Spanish America; Spanish Institutions; Indigenous Institutions; Conclusion; Notes; References; Limits of Empire: The French Colonial State and Local Patrimonialism in North Africa; Introduction; Algeria: Failed Tabula Rasa Approach

Attempted Destruction of Local Patrimonial NetworksUsing Local Patrimonial Networks; Tunisia: Structural Appropriation; European Citizens and European Law; Utilizing Bureaucratic Structures; Capitalization of Agriculture; Conclusion; Notes; Acknowledgments; References; Patrimonialism, Imperialism, and Colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope under Dutch East India Company Rule, c.1652-1795; Notes; References; Grandpa State Instead of Bourgeois State: Patrimonial Politics in China's Age of Commerce, 1644-1839; China's Age of Commerce and an Aborted Cultural Revolution

Eighteenth-Century Centralization of the Qing StateConservative Restoration and the Making of the Grandpa State; From Moral Fundamentalism to "The Emperor is Gay"; Socio-Economic Consequences of the Grandpa State; The Curious Longevity of the Grandpa State; References; Antipodean Patrimonialism? Squattocracy, Democracy and Land Rights in Australia; Imagining Crown Land; Squattocracy and Democracy; Governing Savages; Patrimonialism, Squatters and Aboriginal Workers; Conclusion: Those Who Own the Land Own the Law; Notes; References

Colonialism, Neopatrimonialism, and Hybrid State Formation in Malaysia and the PhilippinesColonialism, Patrimonialism, and the Problem with State-Centered Theory; The Precarious Construction of Colonial Neopatrimonialism; Elite Political Struggle in Neopatrimonialism; Colonial Class Formation, Neopatrimonial Autocracy, and Charismatic Masculinities; Postcolonial Neopatrimonialisms; Notes; Acknowledgment; References; Patrimonialism, Bureaucratization, and Fiscal Systems of British Bengal, 1765-1819; Introduction; Patrimonialism, Bureaucratization, and Fiscal Systems

Land Revenue Administration in Bengal: 1765-1819

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