Colonial exploitation and economic development : the Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compared /

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Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Frankema, Ewout (Editor ), Buelens, Frans, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Colección:Routledge explorations in economic history.
Temas:
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Colonial influence.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Economic conditions.
Congo (Democratic Republic) > Economic policy.
Indonesia > Colonial influence.
Indonesia > Economic conditions.
Indonesia > Economic policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development.
Colonial influence
Economic history
Economic policy
Congo (République démocratique) > Conditions économiques.
Indonésie > Conditions économiques.
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Indonesia
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens
  • 1. Extractive institutions in the Congo: checks and balances in the longue durée / Andreas Exenberger and Simon Hartmann
  • 2. Colonial extraction in the Indonesian archipelago: a long historical view / Thee Kian Wie
  • 3. Varieties of exploitation in colonial settings: Dutch and Belgian policies in Indonesia and the Congo and their legacies / Anne Booth
  • 4. The land tenure system in the Congo, 1885-1960: actors, motivations, and consequences / Piet Clement
  • 5. In the shadow of opium: tax farming and the political economy of colonial extraction in Java, 1807-1911 / Abdul Wahid
  • 6.Fiscal policy in the Belgian Congo in comparative perspective / Leigh Gardner
  • 7. Colonial education and post-colonial governance in the Congo and Indonesia / Ewout Frankema
  • 8. (Un)freedom: colonial labor relations in Belgian Congo and the Netherlands Indies compares / Vincent Houben and Julia Seibert
  • 9. Rubber cultivation in Indonesia and Congo from the 1910s to the 1950s: divergent paths / William G. Clarence-Smith
  • 10. Manufacturing and foreign investment in colonial Indonesia / J. Thomas Lindblad
  • 11. The industrialization of the Belgian Congo / Frans Buelens and Danny Cassimon
  • 12. Mobutu, Suharto, and the challenges of nation-building and economic development, 1965-97 / Jan-Frederik Abbeloos
  • Conclusion / Ewout Frankema and Frans Buelens.

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