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Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960

Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c. 1850-1960

Frankema, Ewout
Booth, Anne

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second

Economics

ISBN10: 1108494269
ISBN13: 9781108494267
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 16 2020
Pages: 242
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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