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  3. Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960
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      • Edited by Ewout Frankema, Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands, Anne Booth, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      November 2019
      December 2019
      ISBN:
      9781108665001
      9781108494267
      9781108714297
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108665001
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.63kg, 242 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 320 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History, Economic History
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History, Economic History
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
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    This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to coastal and island settlements, which functioned as little more than trading posts. The officials running these settlements had neither the resources nor the need to develop new fiscal instruments. With the expansion of imperialism, the costs of maintaining colonies rose. Home governments, reluctant to place the financial burden of imperial expansion on metropolitan taxpayers, pressed colonial governments to become fiscally self-supporting. A team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems and how these regimes involved local people and elites. They shed new light on the political economy of colonial state formation and the institutional legacies they left behind at independence.

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