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Taxing colonial Africa : the political economy of British imperialism

Gardner, Leigh A. - 2013 - Repr

Taxation was one of the most contentious aspects of British colonial rule in Africa, shaping relationships between Africans, colonial governments, and European settlers. This text presents a detailed comparative study of both taxation and public spending in British colonies in Africa

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Regulating the British economy, 1660 - 1850

Gauci, Perry (ed.) - 2011

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The early modern Atlantic economy

McCusker, John J. (ed.) - 2000 - 1. publ.

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West Africa and the Commonwealth

Austin, Dennis - 1957

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Entrepreneurship in the age of empire : colonialism, collaboration and exploitation

Dietz, Sarah - 2021

"This book illustrates how entrepreneurial styles formed and evolved in the post-family capitalist era, how ambitious businessmen navigated socio-commercial networks, or the group system, to gain access to a highly-integrated system of capital cooperation, to disguised monopolies and interests...

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The Story of Indian Manufacturing : Encounters with the Mughal and British Empires (1498 -1947)

Seth, Vijay K. - 2018

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...

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Capital and Colonialism : The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869–1969

Rönnbäck, Klas; Broberg, Oskar - 2019 - 1st ed. 2019

colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6 …This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. Specifically … colonialism was highly complex. While return from investing in African colonies on average was not extraordinary, there were …

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The currency of empire : money and power in seventeenth-century English America

Barth, Jonathan - 2021

Silver, mercantilism, and the impulse for colonization -- The first decades of English American settlement, 1607- -- Monetary upheaval, recovery and the Dutch infiltration, 1640- -- Mercantilism, mints, clipping, smuggling, and piracy, 1660- -- Empire in crisis and flux, 1670- -- Showdown in...

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Trouble of the world : slavery and empire in the age of capital

Sell, Zach - 2021

"In the mid-nineteenth century, U.S. slavery was characterized by relentless expansion and unrelenting exportation, not only of commodities but also of ideas. Zach Sell traces U.S. slavery's significance to colonial land-based dispossessions on a global scale, showing how slavery molded the...

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(Dis)placing empire : renegotiating British colonial geographies

Proudfoot, Lindsay J. (contributor) - 2005

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