Front Cover -- Patrimonial Capitalism and Empire -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Senior Editorial Board -- Student Editorial Board -- Editorial Statement -- Series Editor's Introduction -- Introduction: Old (Patrimonial) Political Forms Made New -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Patrimonialism in America: The Public Domain in the Making of Modernity - From Colonial Times to the Late Nineteenth Century -- Patrimonialism in North America -- Colonial Patrimonialism -- Speculators, Settlers, and the Federal Domain -- Federal Lands and the Railroads -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Explaining the Great Continuity: Ethnic Institutions, Colonialism, and Social Development in Spanish America -- A Great Reversal or a Great Continuity? -- Are Precolonial Institutions a Source of Underdevelopment? -- Is Geography the Explanation? -- The Institutions of Ethnic Stratification -- Ethnicity and Social Development in Spanish America -- Spanish Institutions -- Indigenous Institutions -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Limits of Empire: The French Colonial State and Local Patrimonialism in North Africa -- Introduction -- Algeria: Failed Tabula Rasa Approach -- Attempted Destruction of Local Patrimonial Networks -- Using Local Patrimonial Networks -- Tunisia: Structural Appropriation -- European Citizens and European Law -- Utilizing Bureaucratic Structures -- Capitalization of Agriculture -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Patrimonialism, Imperialism, and Colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope under Dutch East India Company Rule, c.1652-1795 -- Notes -- References -- Grandpa State Instead of Bourgeois State: Patrimonial Politics in China's Age of Commerce, 1644-1839 -- China's Age of Commerce and an Aborted Cultural Revolution -- Eighteenth-Century Centralization of the Qing State.

Conservative Restoration and the Making of the Grandpa State -- From Moral Fundamentalism to "The Emperor is Gay" -- Socio-Economic Consequences of the Grandpa State -- The Curious Longevity of the Grandpa State -- References -- Antipodean Patrimonialism? Squattocracy, Democracy and Land Rights in Australia -- Imagining Crown Land -- Squattocracy and Democracy -- Governing Savages -- Patrimonialism, Squatters and Aboriginal Workers -- Conclusion: Those Who Own the Land Own the Law -- Notes -- References -- Colonialism, Neopatrimonialism, and Hybrid State Formation in Malaysia and the Philippines -- Colonialism, Patrimonialism, and the Problem with State-Centered Theory -- The Precarious Construction of Colonial Neopatrimonialism -- Elite Political Struggle in Neopatrimonialism -- Colonial Class Formation, Neopatrimonial Autocracy, and Charismatic Masculinities -- Postcolonial Neopatrimonialisms -- Notes -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Patrimonialism, Bureaucratization, and Fiscal Systems of British Bengal, 1765-1819 -- Introduction -- Patrimonialism, Bureaucratization, and Fiscal Systems -- Land Revenue Administration in Bengal: 1765-1819 -- The Grant of the Diwani and "Dual Government" -- Decentralized Control and the Tax Farming Experiments of the 1770s -- Examination of Revenue Accounts -- Solicitation of Bids -- The Auction -- Award of the Tax Farm -- Announcement of the Winning Bid and Drafting of the Contract -- The Permanent Settlement: Incorporation of the Patrimonial Order -- Superior Interests -- Inferior Interests -- Ryots -- The Patni System: Bureaucratization of Patrimonial Rights -- Origins of the Patni System -- Property Rights and Contract Enforcement Institutions in the Patni System -- Property Rights under the Patni Sale Law -- Legal Recognition of Patni Tenures -- Superior Interests -- Inferior Interests.

Transferability of Patni Tenures -- Contract Enforcement Institutions under the Patni Sale Law -- Standardization of Contracts -- Sale Procedures -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Innovations in Trust: Patrimonial and Bureaucratic Authority in the Asante Empire of West Africa -- Introduction -- African Neopatrimonialism? -- Patrimonialism and Trust -- Global Trade and the Establishment of the Asante State: 1680-1831 -- Expansion and Decline: 1800-1901 -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Locating the 'Family-State': The Forgotten Legacy of Javanese Theories of the Public Domain (17th-20th c.) -- A Narrative of Culture as the Culprit -- The Negara of Mataram as a Moral-Political Domain -- Portrait of the Ideal Javanese King -- The Political World of the Priyayi -- The Colonial Patrimonialist Distortion of Priyayi Imaginings -- The Last Priyayi -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Coda -- Sovereignty and Sociology: From State Theory to Theories of Empire -- Weber Meets Schmitt -- "State-Centered Analysis": Back to Weber by Way of America -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References.