دانلود کتاب The Economic History of Colonialism

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Front Cover\nThe Economic History of Colonialism\nCopyright information\nMap\nTable of contents\nList of Figures, Tables and Boxes\nGlossary\n1 Colonial and Indigenous Origins of Comparative Development\n Writing the history of empires\n Many colonies, many stories\n European origins of comparative development\n Indigenous origins of comparative development\n Local conditions and decisions\n Conclusion\n Note\n2 Origins of Colonialism: Is There One Story?\n Patterns of origin\n The facilitators: missionaries and explorers\n The political route\n The scramble for Africa\n The maritime route: Asia and West Africa\n The settler route\n The islands\n Conclusion\n Notes\n3 Colonialism as an Agent of Globalization\n Globalization and colonialism: is there a causal chain?\n Trade\n India: a study\n Migration\n Conclusion\n Notes\n4 Growth and Development in the Colonies\n Measuring colonial economic performance\n Sources of economic growth\n Capabilities\n Inequality\n Conclusion\n Notes\n5 Debates about Costs and Benefits\n ‘Imperial accountancy’, then and now\n Negotiating defence costs\n Bargaining for capital\n Trade and protectionism\n Empires of data\n Conclusion\n Notes\n6 How Colonial States Worked\n Collecting taxes\n Budgets and the typologies of colonial states\n Whose colonial policy?\n Coping with the contradictions\n Conclusion\n Note\n7 Did Institutions Matter?\n Colonial institutions and comparative economics\n Local conditions: factor endowments and smallholders\n Local conditions: plantation-mining complexes and settler power\n Local conditions: persistence of precolonial institutions\n Institutions and inequality\n Conclusion\n Notes\n8 Colonialism and the Environment\n The precolonial baseline\n State and environmental decline\n Agricultural expansion\n Regulation of forests\n Hydrology\n Environmentalism\n Conclusion\n Notes\n9 Business and Empires\n The global drivers\n Chronology\n Metropolitan capital\n Indigenous business\n The cost of capital and limits of indigenous business\n Conclusion\n Notes\n10 Decolonization and the End of Empire\n Why did empires end?\n ‘A changing definition of the possible’\n Capacities and constraints\n Legacies\n Conclusion\n11 Summary and Conclusion\nReferences\nIndex\nBack Cover