Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960
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Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960
About this book
This book examines the evolution of fiscal capacity in the context of colonial state formation and the changing world order between 1850 and 1960. Until the early nineteenth century, European colonial control over Asia and Africa was largely confined to coastal and island settlements, which functioned as little more than trading posts. The officials running these settlements had neither the resources nor the need to develop new fiscal instruments. With the expansion of imperialism, the costs of maintaining colonies rose. Home governments, reluctant to place the financial burden of imperial expansion on metropolitan taxpayers, pressed colonial governments to become fiscally self-supporting. A team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems and how these regimes involved local people and elites. They shed new light on the political economy of colonial state formation and the institutional legacies they left behind at independence.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State: Lessons from a Comparative Perspective
- 2 Towards a Modern Fiscal State in Southeast Asia, c. 1900–60
- 3 Why Was British India a Limited State?
- 4 Colonial and Indigenous Institutions in the Fiscal Development of French Indochina
- 5 Fiscal Development in Taiwan, Korea and Manchuria: Was Japanese Colonialism Different?
- 6 From Coast to Hinterland: Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French West Africa, c. 1880–1960
- 7 New Colonies, Old Tools: Building Fiscal Systems in East and Central Africa
- 8 Local Conditions and Metropolitan Visions: Fiscal Policies and Practices in Portuguese Africa, c. 1850–1970
- 9 How Mineral Discoveries Shaped the Fiscal System of South Africa
- Index