Using a novel method to measure racism at the individual and country level, we show, our measure of racism has a strong negative and significant impact on economic development, quality of institutions, education and social capital. We test different hypotheses concerning the origin of racism and...

Introduction. The colonial Cul de Sac -- Province and colony -- Production and investment -- Humanity and interest -- War and profit -- Husband and wife -- Revolution and cultivation -- Evacuation and indemnity -- Epilogue

Economic culture, Confucianism, colonialism, Korean War, modernization, anticommunism, authoritarianism, particularism, cronyism, sectionalism, corruption, social Darwinism. - This thesis tries to search for historical origins of two salient features of South Korean economic culture:...

Introduction / Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy and Anand Swamy -- Indian economic performance and living standards : 1600-2000 / Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta -- The colonial transition and the decline of the East India Company, c.1746-1784 / Santhi Hejeebu -- The...

Pim de Zwart examines the Dutch East India Companys intercontinental trade and its effects on living standards in various regions on the edges of the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Contrary to conventional views, De Zwart finds significant evidence of the integration...

"Beyond empires" explores the complexity of empire building from the point of view of self-organized networks, rather than from the point of view of the central state. This focus takes readers into a world of cooperative strategies worldwide that emphasises the role played by individuals, rather...

The process of legislation, 1772-1857 -- Landed property : security and incentives -- Landed property and credit -- Succession of property : joint versus individual right -- Labor law : from "slavery" to trade union -- Contract : late Westernization -- Corporate law : flawed Westernization --...

Historical background of Indians Kenya -- Asian penetration, land politics, and the genesis of Asian sugarcane agriculture -- Asian sugarcane farming in colonial Nyanza -- Transportation of sugarcane, production and marketing of sugar in colonial Nyanza -- Labor in the Nyanza sugar industry --...

Spanish grants, 1750-1820 -- Mexican Empresario grants, 1821-1829 -- Other Mexican grants, 1830-1835 -- Loan scrip certificates, 1836-1863 -- Military and emigrant headrights, 1836-1887 -- Lot and island sales, 1836-1907 -- Republic Empresario grants, 1841-1844 -- Trans-Nueces and Trans-Pecos...

"In the coming decades, the bulk of Africa's anticipated urban population growth will take place in smaller cities. Failure to manage environmental and public health problems in one such aspiring city, Edendale, has fostered severe pollution, seemingly intractable poverty, and gender...

The cotton crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to "Empire Cotton" -- "The Black man's crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa -- "The scientific redemption of Africa": Coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture -- "King Cotton's impoverished retinue":...