The period 1861 to 1920 witnessed sharp price convergence in British Indian grain markets. Previous research attributed this to the construction of railways. But tests examining price differences between districts provide surprisingly weak support for that hypothesis. Railways mattered, but seem...

This article attempts to make a comparative comparison between British policy in India and the economic system that Iran has based on Zagros and Kurdistan. The paper discusses the systematic and deliberate examples of economic destruction, state monopoly, racism and ethnic discrimination through...

One hundred one years passed since the secret treaty of Sykes-Pico between Britain and France signed in May 1916. It led to the division of the Arab territories, Kurds, Turks, and the Middle East between the two colonial powers. It was a secret agreement with the participation of Czarist Russia,...

This study explores the impact on Java's economic geography of railways built by the Dutch colonial government. Pre-1940 Dutch railway construction affords an historical experiment on the spatial distribution of economic activities across urban Java both before and after 1940.Using city data for...

The global hegemony of Britain in the 19th century is hardly a disputed fact. As a global hegemon, it oversaw the transfer of surplus from the underdeveloped world to its shores. The transfer of surplus was important in maintaining its status as a hegemon. In this essay, I underline the need for...

This chapter reviews the economic performance of Indian railways in particular the development and organization of the network, the trends in railway performance, the effects of ownership and regulatory policies, and the impact of railways on the Indian economy. We highlight four main points....

This paper investigates the impact of the disruption of the Ottoman Empire on the integration of regional and colonial commodity markets in the Near East during 1923-1939. Exploiting a novel dataset on quarterly wholesale prices in interwar Syria, Egypt, Turkey, France and the UK, it tests for...

The corporate history of Ford in Malaya from 1926 to 1957 reveals Ford Canada's global strategy to tap new British colonial markets. A combination of factors motivated Ford Canada to set up a subsidiary in Malaya, whose subsequent domestic sales and marketing success depended on maintaining...