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Migration, mining, and the African diaspora : Guyana in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Josiah, Barbara P. - 2011 - 1. ed.
"From the late 1800s, African workers migrated to the mineral-rich hinterland areas of Guyana, mined gold, diamonds …' information stored in National Archives in Guyana, Great Britain, and the U.S and the Library of Congress, the study situates … fields in the quest for El Dorado in Guyana"-- …
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A history of Indians in Guyana
Nath, Dwarka - 1970 - 2. rev. ed
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The Colonial Origins of Guyana's Underdevelopment
Khemraj, Tarron - 2015
Dutch settlements on the coastal plain locked Guyana into polder agriculture and inadvertently a small widely dispersed …
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Functional inequality in Latin America : news from the twentieth century
Astorga, Pablo - 2015
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The long shadow of history : roman legacy and economic development - evidence from the German limes
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This paper contributes to the understanding of the long-run consequences of Roman rule on economic development. In ancient times, the area of contemporary Germany was divided into a Roman and non-Roman part. The study uses this division to test whether the formerly Roman part of Germany show a...
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Cattle, diamonds and institutions : main drivers of Botswana's economic development, 1850 to present
Hillbom, Ellen - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 26 (2014) 2, pp. 155-176
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The legacy of Friedrich List : the expansive reproduction system and the Korean history of industrialization
Jun, Bogang; Gerybadze, Alexander; Gim, Tae yu - 2016
This study revisits the theory of Friedrich List from a more comprehensive and modernized perspective and applies it to the Korean history of industrialization. Although List is well known as the scholar who insisted on the protection of infant industry, his argument on protectionism is a part...
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Why do some oil-producing countries succeed in democracy while others fail?
Omgba, Luc Désiré - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 180-189
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Educational inputs and economic development in end-of-nineteenth-century Prussia
Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016
Which role did educational investments play for economic development? Using data on schooling quantity and quality provided by the first and second Prussian census on primary schools and two measures capturing the high and the low end of the income distribution allows applying a value-added...
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Modern secondary education and economic performance : the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria
Semrad, Alexandra - 2014
Do new school types focusing on practical and business-related knowledge lead to increased economic performance? To analyze this question, this paper examines the introduction of two types of modern secondary education, the Gewerbeschule and its successor, the Realschule, in nineteenth-century...
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