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Kolonialismus 7,692 Colonialism 6,705 Großbritannien 2,148 United Kingdom 1,914 Wirtschaftsgeschichte 1,732 Economic history 1,670 Geschichte 1,266 Afrika 872 Indien 807 India 770 Entwicklung 766 Economic development 740 History 734 Africa 684 Imperialismus 427 Sklaverei 427 Welt 427 World 425 Slavery 415 Kolonie 364 Imperialism 356 Deutschland 335 Frankreich 328 Handelsgeschichte 296 History of trade 294 Wirtschaftswachstum 287 Economic growth 284 Kolonialpolitik 261 colonialism 249 USA 245 France 240 International economic relations 207 Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen 207 Spanien 206 United States 206 Europa 196 Postkolonialismus 195 Entwicklungsländer 183 Postcolonialism 182 Spain 182
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Book / Working Paper 5,601 Article 2,188 Journal 93
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Article in journal 1,405 Working paper 691 Book section 346 Proceedings 85 Biography 29 Case study 24 Government document 20 Glossary included 13 Review 6 Statistics 5 Textbook 5 Introduction 3 Newspaper 3 Literature review 2
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English 6,580 German 630 Undetermined 244 French 219 Spanish 79 Italian 44 Dutch 34 Portuguese 34 Russian 26 Danish 11 Swedish 5 Bosnian 1 Kazakh 1 Norwegian 1 Polish 1 Romanian 1 Albanian 1 Serbian 1
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Robinson, James Alan 63 Acemoglu, Daron 53 Johnson, Simon 35 Grubb, Farley Ward 29 Roy, Tirthankar 29 Papaioannou, Elias 27 Williamson, Jeffrey G. 27 Fourie, Johan 26 Frankema, Ewout 24 Engerman, Stanley L. 22 Gallego, Francisco A. 21 Michalopulos, Stelios 21 Rönnbäck, Klas 21 Chaudhary, Latika 19 Nunn, Nathan 19 Sokoloff, Kenneth L. 19 Bertocchi, Graziella 18 Mill, James 18 Bolt, Jutta 16 Gupta, Bishnupriya 15 Cogneau, Denis 14 Flandreau, Marc 14 Meier zu Selhausen, Felix 14 Alam, M. Shahid 13 Fenske, James 13 Panza, Laura 13 Bonfatti, Roberto 12 Caicedo, Felipe Valencia 12 Gardner, Leigh 12 Moradi, Alexander 12 Swamy, Anand V. 12 Duignan, Peter 11 Keith, Arthur Berriedale 11 Levine, Ross 11 Soares, Rodrigo Reis 11 Bagchi, Amiya Kumar 10 Fofack, Hippolyte 10 García Jimeno, Camilo 10 Karstedt, Oskar 10 Lakshmi Iyer 10
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National Bureau of Economic Research 67 Großbritannien / Colonial Office 24 Great Britain / Colonial Office 10 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 10 Großbritannien / Secretary of State for the Colonies 9 Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft 8 Institute of Social Studies (ISS) 8 East India Company 7 Great Britain / Parliament / House of Commons 6 Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions 6 Colonial Office 5 Fabian Colonial Bureau 5 Gad Forlag 5 Großbritannien / Central Office of Information 5 Royal Institute of International Affairs 5 International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University (ISS), The Hague 4 Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies 4 Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) 4 Secretary of State for the Colonies 4 African Economic History Network 3 African Institution (London, England) 3 FAO Economic and Social Development Department 3 Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), United Nations 3 German Institute of Development and Sustainability 3 Great Britain / Parliament 3 Indian Council of Historical Research 3 Indonesia / Departemen Luar Negeri 3 Institut colonial international 3 Institute of Race Relations 3 Instituto de Economía, Facultad de Ciencia Económicas y Administrativas 3 International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations 3 Istituto Coloniale Fascista <Rom> 3 Koninklijke Vereeniging Koloniaal Instituut 3 Massachusetts Colonization Society 3 Nuffield College 3 Society for the Reform of Colonial Government 3 Trueman & Cook 3 Vereinte Nationen 3 Association of British Chambers of Commerce 2 Autorenkollektiv Altamerikanistik <Hamburg> 2
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NBER working paper series 68 NBER Working Paper 60 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 60 The journal of economic history 48 Economic history of developing regions 47 Discussion papers / CEPR 40 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 33 The economic history review : a journal of economic and social history 33 Explorations in economic history : EEH 32 Revista de historia económica 32 Business history review 27 African economic history 23 World development : the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development 23 Discussion paper series 22 Springer eBook Collection 22 Critical perspectives on accounting : an international journal for social and organizational accountability 20 Journal of development economics 20 Australian economic history review : a journal of economic, business & social history 19 Beiträge zur Kolonial- und Überseegeschichte 19 Business history 19 Economic history working papers / LSE, Economic History Department 17 Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science 17 Palgrave Studies in Economic History 17 The economic history review 17 Enterprise & society : the international journal of business history 16 The American economic review 16 Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies 15 African Economic History Working Paper Series 14 Publicatie / Vereeniging voor Studie van Koloniaal-Maatschappelijke Vraagstukken 14 CESifo working papers 13 Organization : the interdisciplinary journal of organization, theory and society 13 Review of international political economy 13 Studies in history, economics and public law 13 Working paper 13 Accounting history : journal of the Accounting History Special Interest Group of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand 12 African economic history working paper series 12 Cliometrica : journal of historical economics and econometric history 12 European review of economic history 12 Journal of institutional economics 12 SpringerLink / Bücher 12
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ECONIS (ZBW) 7,494 USB Cologne (EcoSocSci) 214 RePEc 122 EconStor 44 Other ZBW resources 7 USB Cologne (business full texts) 1
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From the Great Divergence to South-South Divergence : new comparative horizons in global economic history
Frankema, Ewout - 2025
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From the great divergence to south-south divergence : new comparative horizons in global economic history
Frankema, Ewout - 2023
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Accounting for colonial domination in Liberal and Fascist Italy, 1912-1941
Antonelli, Valerio; Bigoni, Michele; D'Alessio, Raffaele; … - 2025
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The return of the repressed : the colonial history of the EU's geopolitical turn
Hansen, Peo - 2025
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Decolonization, legitimacy and fiscal capacity : event study evidence from Africa
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Süße, Marvin - 2025
A vast literature across several academic disciplines studies the impact of colonial rule, but less attention has been paid to the consequences of decolonization. This paper uses a recently-constructed dataset on the fiscal history of African countries from 1900 to 2015 to analyze the impact of...
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Exploring the use of tikanga Māori in workplace personal grievances in Aotearoa New Zealand
Walsh, Xavier; Hikuroa, Daniel - 2025
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The cousin marriage tradition, colonial shocks, and the performance of informal firms in sub-Saharan Africa
Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Zhang, Peng - 2025
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A colony of opportunity : African economic intermediaries, rubber, and capitalism in German colonial Cameroon, 1884-1914
Oestermann, Tristan - 2025
Taking German Cameroon as an example, this article uses the concept of the colonial intermediary to analyze Africans' role in colonial capitalism. While researchers have shown that the colonial state depended on Africans, the importance of African intermediaries in European trade has hardly been...
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A Colony of Opportunity: African Economic Intermediaries, Rubber, and Capitalism in German Colonial Cameroon, 1884-1914
Oestermann, Tristan - 2025
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(Post-)Colonial Business History and the Coloniality of the Firm: The Case of the Woermann Group, 1884-1945
Todzi, Kim Sebastian - 2025
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(Post-)colonial business history and the coloniality of the firm : the case of the Woermann Group, 1884-1945
Todzi, Kim Sebastian - 2025
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Liberal norms, colonial sediments : the case of OECD aid statistics
Khakee, Anna; Callus, Christa - 2025
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How professions maintain coloniality : interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine
Aue, Luis - 2025
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Towards a critical development perspective on intercountry adoptions
Vries, Shila Khuki de; Kinsbergen, Sara; Koch, Dirk-Jan - 2025
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Colonial encounters and slavery in early modern Asia
2025
What happened when European colonialism coopted or confronted societies in Asia and the Indian Ocean World for the purpose of slaving, and what are the tools to analyse this? These are questions that guide the present volume. For several hundred years after 1498, seafaring European powers were...
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Living standards and forced labour : a comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918-74
Dolan, Leo - 2025
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Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa : evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920-74
Jones, Sam; Gibbon, Peter - 2025
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From colonialism to international aid : social protection in former French colonies in sub-Saharan Africa, 1890-2020
Olié, Louis; Delpy, Léo; Ballet, Jérôme - 2024
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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024
Can colonialism affect today’s urban outcomes? This paper examines the long-run impact of Concessions - foreign-run enclaves established in the late nineteenth century inside Chinese cities by European settlers for residence and investment purposes. They soon became the new economic hubs of...
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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions
Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024 - Electronically published: 16.1.2024
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Encomienda, the colonial state, and long-run development in Colombia
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Matajira, Camilo; Sánchez, Fabio - 2024
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The new scramble for Africa in a post-colonial era and the challenges of inclusive development : a semi-systematic literature review
Mlambo, Victor H.; Masuku, Mfundo Mandla; Mthembu, Zinhle - 2024
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Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975
Carvalhal, Hélder; Palma, Nuno - 2026
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Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975
Carvalhal, Hélder; Palma, Nuno - 2024
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Living standards in Angola, 1760-1975
Carvalhal, Hélder; Palma, Nuno - 2024
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Institutions and challenges to development : an Analysis of economic growth, governance, and development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sangare, Youssouf; Adotey, Edem - 2024
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The legacy of coercive cotton cultivation in colonial Mozambique
Barros, Henrique; Caeiro, Rute Martins; Jones, Sam; … - 2024
We examine the long-term impact of forced labour on individual risk behaviour and economic decisions. For that, we focus on a policy of coercive cotton cultivation enforced in colonial Mozambique between 1926 and 1961. We combine archival sources about the boundaries of historical cotton...
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The Palgrave handbook of South-South migration and inequality
2024 - 1st ed. 2024.
1. South-South Migration, Inequality and Development: An Introduction -- PART I Conceptualising South-South Migration -- 2. The Enduring Impacts of Slavery: An Historical Perspective on South-South Migration -- 3. Recentering the South in Studies of Migration. 4. Writing the Camp -- 5. Migration...
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What happened to the workshop of West Africa? : resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial northern Nigeria, 1911-52
Travieso, Emiliano; Westland, Tom - 2024
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Did the US annexation of Puerto Rico in 1898 increase the biological standard of living of its population? : a first anthropometric approach
Moreno Lázaro, Javier - 2024
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"Numberless little risks" : "tropical exposure" in globalizing actuarial discourse, 1852-1947
Aitken, Rob - 2024
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Inequality in the Cape colony, 1685-1844 : new measures, new evidence
Fourie, Johan - 2026
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From paddy to port : the role of Northwestern Korean rice cultivation in interwar Japan
Maeda, Kiyotaka; Kahm, Howard - 2026
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Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform : the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade
Meadowcroft, John - 2026
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Transplanting company law : shareholder protection in the Cape Colony
Fliers, Philip; Maphosa, Lloyd Melusi; Turner, John D. - 2026
In this paper, we examine the transplantation of British company law into the Cape Colony in the late nineteenth century. The Cape Colony Companies Act of 1892 was like its British counterpart in that it provided minimal investor protection. This meant that promoters were free to choose the...
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Was capital expensive in the colonial countryside? : the view from Uttar Pradesh
Nagar, Alex - 2026
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Colonial wars and modern nationalism : evidence from fascist Italy’s campaigns in East Africa
Broso, Matteo; Pinay, Jeanne - 2026
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Neither naïve nor fatalistic : decolonizing mining partnerships with indigenous communities in Mongolia and Australia
Turkina, Natalya - 2026
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The permanent settlement and the emergence of a British state in late-eighteenth-century India
Roy, Tirthankar - 2023
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Constructing "Russian civilisation" : a critical introduction to the National Atlas of Russia : publ. 2004-2008
Gavrilova, Sofia - 2023
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Anglo-Chinese capitalism in Hong Kong and Singapore : origins, reproduction & divergence
Cheang, Bryan - 2023
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The effect of settler farming on indigenous agriculture : evidence from Italian Libya
Bertazzini, Mattia C. - 2023
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Songlines
Kampanelis, Sotiris; Elizalde, Aldo; Ioannides, Yannis M. - 2023
This paper examines the long-term economic impacts of the adoption of local knowledge during European colonisation. We use the case of Australia, where Aboriginal knowledge of the landscape was integral to colonial exploration and settlement. To quantify the effects of this knowledge, we...
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Ncedile Saule's Umlimandlela (at the cross-roads) as a witness to colonial and apartheid lexicology in South Africa
Diko, Mlamli - 2023
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Reconstructing a slave society : building the DWI panel, 1760-1914
Galli, Stefania; Rönnbäck, Klas; Theodoridis, Dimitrios - 2023
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The development of colonial health care provision in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire : ca. 1900-55
Vrooman, Arlinde C. E. - 2023
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German colonialism in Africa and the Pacific, 1884-1914
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix - 2025
In recent years, German colonialism has received growing public attention - a history long overshadowed by the World Wars. Due to its short-lived character, a long-term comparative view of German colonialism has not featured prominently in most accounts of European imperialism. This chapter...
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German colonialism in Africa and the Pacific, 1884-1914
Meier zu Selhausen, Felix - 2025
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Decolonization, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity: Event Study Evidence from Africa
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Suesse, Marvin - 2025
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Colonial governance and resource allocation in the British West Indies (1838-1938)
Bertinelli, Luisito; Gatti, Fabio; Strobl, Eric - 2025
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Corporations as the state : concessions, urbanization, and long-run development in the Copperbelt
Dries, Jonathan - 2025
During the Scramble for Africa, European colonization relied on private concessionary companies that established distinctive institutional frameworks. This paper provides new empirical evidence suggesting that colonial corporate governance produced divergent long-run development trajectories. I...
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Corporations as the state: Concessions, urbanization, and long-run development in the Copperbelt
Dries, Jonathan - 2025
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Sinews of empire? The Crown Agents for the Colonies and African government debt under colonial rule
Gardner, Leigh; Husain, Tehreem - 2025
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Portugal in the 21st century
2025
"Portugal in the 21st Century provides a thorough yet accessible picture of contemporary Portugal in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It examines and elucidates Portugal's recent trajectory, its current position, and the main challenges it faces through an examination of the...
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Indigenous data sovereignty : a catalyst for ethical AI in business
Rana, Vishal - 2025
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Empires and globalization
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2025
The global turn towards the market of the 1980s and 1990s led some to believe that globalization was untethering itself from its political moorings. More recently, however, the combined impact of the China shock, Covid, and war have revealed even to economists what historians and political...
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Against mastery : epistemic decolonizing in the margins of the business school
Abdallah, Chahrazad - 2025
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Gendered impacts of colonial education : the role of access and norms transmission in French Morocco
Allegre, Amélie; Borcan, Oana; Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2025
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Gendered impacts of colonial education : the role of access and norms transmission in French Morocco
Allegre, Amélie; Borcan, Oana; Brunnschweiler, Christa N. - 2025
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