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Local Subversions of Colonial Cultures : Commodities and Anti-Commodities in Global History

Hazareesingh, Sandip - 2015

The book brings together original, state-of-the-art historical research from several continents and examines how mainly local peasant societies responded to colonial pressures to produce a range of different commodities. It offers new directions in the study of African, Asian, Caribbean, and...

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Leadership in Postcolonial Africa

Jallow, Baba G. - 2014

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Leadership in Postcolonial Africa: An Introduction -- Chapter 2 Hastings Kamuzu Banda: How the Cold War Sustained Bad Leadership in Malawi, 1964-1994 -- Chapter 3 Ahmed Sékou Touré: The Tyrant Hero -- Chapter 4 The Quest to Reform the...

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Colonial Theories of Institutional Development : Toward a Model of Styles of Imperialism

Oto-Peralías, Daniel - 2017

-- 1.2 Determinants of Institutional Quality: The Key Role of European Colonialism -- 1.3 Toward a Model of Styles of … Imperialism -- 1.4 Preliminary Empirical Evidence -- 1.5 Structure of the Study -- Chapter 2: Views Linking Colonialism with … -- 2.4.1 Additional Studies on Colonialism -- 2.4.2 Studies about the Importance of Precolonial Institutions -- 2.4.3 Other …

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Emerging from an Entrenched Colonial Economy : New Zealand Primary Production, Britain and the EEC, 1945 - 1975

Hall, David - 2017

Intro -- Emerging From an Entrenched Colonial Economy -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 General -- 1.2 Primary Producers: A Conservative or Innovative Community? -- 1.3 Chapter Themes -- 1.4 Sources -- 2 Changing Relationships...

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Imperial Theory and Colonial Pragmatism : Charles Harper, Economic Development and Agricultural Co-operation in Australia

Gilchrist, David J. - 2017

Book Abstracts -- Contents -- 1: The Long Stagnation -- Western Australian Economic Growth and the Role of Co-operation -- The Imperial Inheritance and Pragmatic Co-operation -- The Organisation of This Book -- Bibliography -- Theses -- Secondary Sources -- 2: Visions of English Co-operation in...

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Biofuels and the globalization of risk : the biggest change in the North-South releationships since colonialism?

Smith, James - 2010

Biofuels and the Globalization of Risk offers a fresh, compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuels story, with its technological optimism and often-idealized promises for the future. This essential new critique argues that investment in biofuels may reconfigure risk and...

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Corporate Character : Representing Imperial Power in British India, 1786-1901

Kent, Eddy - 2014

Eddy Kent examines novels, short stories, poems, essays, memoirs, private correspondence, and parliamentary speeches related to the East India Company and the Indian Civil Service to explain the origins of the imperial ethos of "virtuous service

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Economic activities under the Japanese colonial empire

Sawai, Minoru (ed.) - 2016

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Part I: Problems of Economic Development in the Japanese Empire -- Chapter 2: The Formation of Capitalism in East Asia -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Rise of East Asia in the World Economy During the Interwar...

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Tropical Babylons : Sugar and the Making of the Atlantic World, 1450-1680

Schwartz, Stuart B - 2004

The idea that sugar, plantations, slavery, and capitalism were all present at the birth of the Atlantic world has long dominated scholarly thinking. In nine original essays by a multinational group of top scholars, Tropical Babylons re-evaluates this so-called "sugar revolution." The most...

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Bridges to New Business : The Economic Decolonization of Indonesia

Lindblad, J. Th - 2014 - 1st ed.

This monograph offers the first comprehensive history of the decolonization of the Indonesian economy, a process with a different momentum and timing from the achievement of political independence. It traces the origins of economic decolonization to the late-colonial period, covers developments...

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