| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 605 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Global economic history series, 1872-5155 ; 9 |
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Global economic history series ; 9. 1872-5155
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| Contents |
Introduction / Richard Sutch -- Settler colonization and societies in world history : patterns and concepts / Christopher Lloyd and Jacob Metzer -- Part A: General perspectives -- Why the settlers soared : the dynamics of immigration and economic growth -- In the "golden age" for settler societies / Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch -- Five hundred years of European colonization : inequality and paths of development / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Uneven development paths among settler societies, 1870-2000 / Henry Willebald and Luis Bertola -- Settler colonialism in Africa / Claude Lutzelschwab -- Jews in mandatory Palestine and additional phenomena of atypical settler -- Colonization in modern time / Jacob Metzer -- Part B: Comparative themes settler-Indigenous relations -- "Great frauds and abuses" : institutional innovation at the colonial frontier of private property : case studies of the individualization of Maori Indian and Metis lands / Frank Tough and Kathleen Dimmer -- Aboriginal economies in settler societies : Maori and Canadian prairie Indians / Tony Ward -- Labor and migration -- Patterns and processes of migration : an overview / Drew Keeling -- Three island frontiers : Japanese migration in the Pacific / Carl Mosk -- Coerced labour in southern hemisphere settler economies / David Meredith -- Labor market outcomes in settler economies between 1870 and 1913 : accounting for differences in labor hours and occupations / Martin P. Shanahan and John K. Wilson -- Finance and capital flows -- Wakefieldian investment and the birth of new societies, c. 1830 to 1930 / Bernard Attard -- Financial intermediaries in settler economies : the role of the banking sector development in South Africa, 1850-2000 / Grietjie Verhoef -- Trade and investment -- International trade and investment of the settler economies during the twentieth century : Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa / Tim Rooth -- Trade, dominance, dependence and the end of the settlement era in Canada -- Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, 1920-1973 / Francine McKenzie -- Institutional development -- So similar, so different : New Zealand and Uruguay in the world economy / Jorge Alvarez and Luis Bertola -- The state and economic policy in twentieth century Australia and New Zealand : escaping the staples trap? / Jim McAloon -- Institutional patterns of the settler societies : hybrid, parallel, and -- Convergent / Christopher Lloyd -- Notes on contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
Settler Economies in World History is a comparative, wide-ranging historical study of the experience of the modern settler societies that have followed a distinctive economic and institutional path to the present from their neo-European origins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Land settlement -- Developing countries
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Indigenous peoples -- Developing countries
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Colonies
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Indigenous peoples
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Land settlement
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Kolonisatie.
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Economische geschiedenis.
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- Colonies
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| Subject |
Developing countries
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Europe
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lloyd, Christopher, 1950- editor.
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Metzer, Jacob, editor.
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Sutch, Richard, editor.
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| LC no. |
2012038876 |
| ISBN |
9789004232655 |
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9004232656 |
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9789004232655 |
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1283956004 |
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9781283956000 |
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