“Many people have tried to draw lessons from Botswana’s apparent economic success, and linked it to unique features of the country’s history. In this book, Bolt and Hillbom have used detailed historical research to tell the story of that success, and suggest that it is perhaps not so...

This book provides the first wide-ranging account of the Maltese economy in the modern era, from colonialism to European Union membership. It sets arguments about growth and development, and the impact and legacy ofcolonization, against detailed histories of agriculture, manufacturing and trade,...

Chapter 1: Introduction; Sabrina Joseph -- Chapter 2: Making Cheap Nature on High Altitude: A World-Ecological Perspective on Commodification, Communities, and Conflict in the Andes; Hanne Cottyn -- Chapter 3: Agricultural Commodities on the Philippine Frontier: State-Sponsored Resettlement and...

Chapter 1: On writing Africa’s economic history -- Chapter 2: Research on Africa’s history and development – a review -- Chapter 3: Back in history, 1000-1850 -- Chapter 4: Economic and political integration, 1850-1920 -- Chapter 5: Transformation and administration, 1920-1950 -- Chapter...

1. ‘Where the Sandalwood Is Born’: East Timor until the Mid-Eighteenth Century -- 2. The Two Last Centuries of Portuguese Domination -- 3. The Indonesian Occupation -- 4. The Economy under Occupation -- 5. Launching a New State -- 6. Conclusions

Part One. The Erosion of Obstacles -- 1.Barriers and Push Forces -- 2. Military and Ecclesiastical Buildings -- 3. Dissolution of the Monasteries -- 4. Civil War -- 5. Communal Farming and Under-used Land -- 6. Tithes -- 7. Archaic Institutions -- 8. Obstructive Infrastructure -- 9....

Part 1. Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Strategic Locations -- Chapter 2. Sources: Artefacts -- Chapter 3. Sources: Documents -- Chapter 4. Post-war Time Shift -- Part Two: Localities -- Chapter 5. Chalk Downs -- Chapter 6. Heathland -- Chapter 7. Lot Meads -- Chapter 8. Drove Roads -- Chapter 9....

1. Introduction; Jorge Alvarez and Svante Prado -- Part 1. Latin America and Scandinavia -- 2. Latin American and Nordic countries: a renewed tradition of comparative studies; Jorge Álvarez, Luis Bértola and Jan Bohlin -- Part 2: Trade, industrialisation and growth -- 3. Foreign trade and...

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. 1808: The Napoleonic Wars and the Loss of the American Colonies -- Chapter 3. 1898: The “Fin de siècle” crisis -- Chapter 4. 1936: Frustrated hopes: the Great Depression, the Second Republic, and the Civil War -- Chapter 5. 1959: The Stabilization Plan...

Part I -- Chapter-1: A short economic history of EMEs -- Chapter-2: The Age of Dirigisme (1950-1980) -- Chapter-3: The Age of Crises (1980-2000) -- Chapter-4: The Age of Globalization (2000-2020) -- Part II -- Chapter-5: The New Seeds of Instability -- Chapter-6: Mapping out the EME Fault-lines...