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Settler Economies in World History.
Title:
Settler Economies in World History.
Author:
Lloyd, Christopher.
ISBN:
9789004232655
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (629 pages)
Series:
Global Economic History Series ; v.9

Global Economic History Series
Contents:
Settler Economies in World History -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Toward a Unified Approach to the Economic History of Settler Economies -- 1. Settler Colonization and Societies in World History: Patterns and Concepts -- PART A: GENERAL PERSPECTIVES -- 2. Why the Settlers Soared: The Dynamics of Immigration and Economic Growth in the "Golden Age" for Settler Societies -- 3. Five Hundred Years of European Colonization: Inequality and Paths of Development -- 4. Uneven Development Paths among Settler Societies, 1870-2000 -- 5. Settler Colonialism in Africa -- 6. Jews in Mandatory Palestine and Additional Phenomena of Atypical Settler Colonization in Modern Time -- PART B: COMPARATIVE THEMES -- SETTLER-INDIGENOUS RELATIONS -- 7. "Great Frauds and Abuses" -- Institutional Innovation at the Colonial Frontier of Private Property: Case Studies of the Individualization of Maori, Indian and Métis Lands -- 8. Aboriginal Economies in Settler Societies: Maori and Canadian Prairie Indians -- LABOR AND MIGRATION -- 9. Patterns and Processes of Migration: An Overview -- 10. Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration in the Pacific -- 11. Coerced Labor in Southern Hemisphere Settler Economies -- 12. Labor Market Outcomes in Settler Economies between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for Differences in Labor Hours and Occupations -- FINANCE AND CAPITAL FLOWS -- 13. Wakefieldian Investment and the Birth of New Societies, ca. 1830 to 1930 -- 14. Financial Intermediaries in Settler Economies: The Role of the Banking Sector Development in South Africa, 1850-2000 -- TRADE AND INVESTMENT.

15. International Trade and Investment of the Settler Economies during the Twentieth Century: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. -- 16. Trade, Dominance, Dependence and the End of the Settlement Era in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 1920-1973 -- INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT -- 17. So Similar, So Different: New Zealand and Uruguay in the World Economy -- 18. The State and Economic Policy in Twentieth Century Australia and New Zealand: Escaping the Staples Trap? -- 19. Institutional Patterns of the Settler Societies: Hybrid, Parallel, and Convergent -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.
Abstract:
Settler Economies in World History is a comparative, wide-ranging historical study of the experience of the modern settler societies that have followed a distinctive economic and institutional path to the present from their neo-European origins.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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