We examine colonial-era primary education as a determinant of modern-day attainment and gender disparities in education. We construct a novel dataset from the French Protectorate in Morocco, combining archival data on colonial school locations in 1931 and 1954 with the most recent Demographic...

We examine colonial-era primary education as a determinant of modern-day attainment and gender disparities in education. We construct a novel dataset from the French Protectorate in Morocco, combining archival data on colonial school locations in 1931 and 1954 with the most recent Demographic...

Traditional perspectives on decolonization, particularly how European states like France and Britain viewed and analyzed through during the history is vulnerable to find out the Ottomans' sample's elements of decolonization from the past. This paper encourages moving beyond Eurocentric...

The different theoretical constructions around the conceptualizations of Buen Vivir and decolonial feminisms have been the subject of fervent debate at the beginning of the governmental periods of Evo Morales in Bolivia (2006 - 2019) and Rafael Correa in Ecuador (2007 - 2017) when Constitutional...

After centuries of colonial subordination, Black and Brown ex-colonies are still fighting to achieve the fruits of decolonization. The traditional theory is that former colonies will emerge from the colonial period with the legal mandate and international recognition needed to chart their own...

Can name analysis be used to study elite persistence in African contexts? Taking Sierra Leone as a case study, we use surnames to measure how two historical elites (descendants of settlers that comprise Sierra Leone's Krio community and members of Chiefly Ruling Houses) have fared over the...

"In the first half of the twentieth century, a major change occurred in Egyptian nationalist understandings of imperialism and economic sovereignty. Where once the volatilities of foreign markets and capital were seen as the main threat, over time large landowners and their imperial allies were...

Postkoloniales Counter-Mapping ist eine Methode, die sich seit einigen Jahren zunehmender Beliebtheit erfreut. Im Allgemeinen dient sie dazu, koloniale Spuren und Machtstrukturen in urbanen Räumen sichtbar zu machen und somit zur Dekolonisierung beizutragen. Bei dieser Form des Kartierens...

This essay, part of a forum on Claire Priest’s Credit Nation: Property Laws and Institutions in Early America, points toward a different framing for the history of property and credit in early America, one compatible with many of Priest’s finding but that trades off the theoretical elegance...

Conventional wisdom proposes deep historical roots for authoritarianism in Africa: either colonial “decentralized despotism” or enduring structural features. We present a new theoretical perspective. Africans sought autonomous local communities, which constrained precolonial rulers....

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Context -- Chapter 3. Developmental Challenges in the Post-Independence Era -- Chapter 4. Theory and Previous Research -- Chapter 5: Methodology -- Chapter 6. Results and Discussion -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Decolonizing development : from Dadabhai Naoroji to Raúl Prebisch -- Development and social identities : race and caste in Mariátegui and Ambedkar -- Memories of underdevelopment : Miguel Angel Asturias's chronicles on India.

Foreword / Malcolm Murfett -- Leadership in apartheid South Africa : the impact of Dr. Henrik Verwoerd and B.J. Vorster / J.E. Spence -- Lee Kuan Yew : from political insurgent to national manager / Michael D. Barr -- Fidel Castro : the eternal leader of a revolution or the leader of an eternal...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. What happens after colonial industries have run their course-after the factory closes and the fields go fallow? Set in the...

"The Petro-State Masquerade studies the fraught relationship between fossil fuels and political power in Trinidad and Tobago. Examining the past, present, and future of the country's oil and gas industries, anthropologist Ryan Jobson traces the processes by which early economic growth turned...

Uncommon Wealth is the little known and shocking history of how Britain treated its former non-white colonies after the end of empire. It is the story of how an interconnected group of British capitalists enabled horrific inequality across the globe, profiting in colonial Africa, Asia and the...

"Depuis longtemps, l'afro-pessimisme et la fatalité continentale africaine ont marqué le débat politique et économique. Ce débat s'est souvent fait en minimisant les contraintes historiques, structurelles, imposées au continent par le capitalisme rentier international depuis l'esclavagisme...