Through the lens of fiscal capacity building, a team of leading historians provides a comparative overview of how colonial states set up their administrative systems in operations that involved local people and elites. This sheds light on the political economic context of colonial state formation, and the long-term effects of colonial rule.
Über den Autor Frankema Ewout (Hrsg.)
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Ewout Frankema is Professor and Chair of Rural and Environmental History at Wageningen University, the Netherlands.Frans Buelens is a researcher at the Faculty of Applied Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
