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Settler economies in world history /

Settler colonialism was a major aspect of the imperial age that began in the sixteenth century and has encompassed the whole world unto the present. Modern settler societies have together constituted one of the major routes to economic development from their foundation in resource abundance and labo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lloyd, Christopher, 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2012.
Colección:Global economic history series ; 9.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Richard Sutch
  • Settler colonization and societies in world history : patterns and concepts / Christopher Lloyd and Jacob Metzer
  • Part A: General perspectives
  • Why the settlers soared : the dynamics of immigration and economic growth
  • In the "golden age" for settler societies / Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch
  • Five hundred years of European colonization : inequality and paths of development / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff
  • Uneven development paths among settler societies, 1870-2000 / Henry Willebald and Luis Bertola
  • Settler colonialism in Africa / Claude Lutzelschwab
  • Jews in mandatory Palestine and additional phenomena of atypical settler
  • Colonization in modern time / Jacob Metzer
  • Part B: Comparative themes settler-indigenous relations
  • "Great frauds and abuses" : institutional innovation at the colonial frontier of private property : case studies of the individualization of Maori Indian and Metis lands / Frank Tough and Kathleen Dimmer
  • Aboriginal economies in settler societies : Maori and Canadian prairie Indians / Tony Ward
  • Labor and migration
  • Patterns and processes of migration : an overview / Drew Keeling
  • Three island frontiers : Japanese migration in the Pacific / Carl Mosk
  • Coerced labour in southern hemisphere settler economies / David Meredith
  • Labor market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913 : accounting for differences in labor hours and occupations / Martin P. Shanahan and John K. Wilson
  • Finance and capital flows
  • Wakefieldian investment and the birth of new societies, c. 1830 to 1930 / Bernard Attard
  • Financial intermediaries in settler economies : the role of the banking sector development in South Africa, 1850-2000 / Grietjie Verhoef
  • Trade and investment
  • International trade and investment of the settler economies during the twentieth century : Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa / Tim Rooth
  • Trade, dominance, dependence and the end of the settlement era in Canada
  • Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 1920-1973 / Francine McKenzie
  • Institutional development
  • So similar, so different : New Zealand and Uruguay in the world economy / Jorge Alvarez and Luis Bertola
  • The state and economic policy in twentieth century Australia and New Zealand : escaping the staples trap? / Jim McAloon
  • Institutional patterns of the settler societies : hybrid, parallel, and
  • Convergent / Christopher Lloyd
  • Notes on contributors
  • Index.