1 Introduction -- 2 The development of the modern business corporation in 19th century India: Building the foundations for the emergence of TISCO in the 20th century -- 3 TISCO during the decade of the 1900s: The Formation period -- 4 Initial failure to produce competitive steel, capitalization...

This book discusses the role historical events played in determining the pattern of growth of Indian manufacturing. Two important historical events significantly influenced the course of Indian manufacturing from the 15th century AD. The first was the arrival of European merchants via sea route...

“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 considers the role played by co-operative agriculture as a critical economic model which, in Australia, helped build public capital, drive economic development and impact political arrangements. In the case of colonial Western Australia, the story of agricultural co-operation is...

This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The...

Covering the colonial Empire (including West Indies, India, Singapore, West Africa and East Africa), this book is a detailed revisionist history of the British imperial manipulations of colonial currency systems to facilitate the rise of sterling to world supremacy via the gold standard, and to...

This book is a study of New Zealand shaking off its quasi-colonial dependence on Britain. Has New Zealand moved beyond its colonial heritage? Is it now time to remove the Union Jack from the national flag and change to a Republic? Hall analyses the three decades after World War II when changes...

Würdigung der politischen Verdienste von Friedrich List zu Afrika, Asien, Ozeanien und Südamerika -- Die Meinung von Friedrich List zur Migration und Kolonialpolitik -- Zwei unbekannte Patentanmeldungen von Friedrich List -- Neue Erkenntnisse von Friedrich List durch Karl Marx und Friedrich...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part Ⅰ: Problems of Economic Development in the Japanese Empire -- Chapter 2 The Formation of Capitalism in East Asia -- Chapter 3 The Shifting Axis of Specialization within the Japanese Empire: A Study of Railway Distribution of Cereals in Colonial Korea -- Chapter 4...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Somali People: Between Trusteeship and Independence -- 3 Analysis of the Economic System of Somalia -- 4 Companies and Firms in Italian Somalia -- 5 International Aid to Somalia -- Conclusion -- Appendices