Routledge Handbook of the Economic History of Colonialism

Introduction : What is the Economic History of Colonialism?

Ewout Frankema and Tirthankar Roy

Part 1

Themes in Comparative History

1. Empires and Globalisation

Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke

2. “How to Govern Colonies”: Colonial States and Fiscal Systems

Leigh Gardner

3. Labour, Slavery, and Migration in the Age of Empire

Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

4. Law and the Economy during Colonialism and After

Tirthankar Roy

5. The Globalisation and Hybridisation of Science and Technology in the Age of Empire

Ewout Frankema and Tirthankar Roy

6. Colonised Environments and Colonial Economies

Corey Ross

7. Colonialism Incorporated: the Business History of European Empires

Klas Rönnbäck and Oskar Broberg

8. Colonialism and Economic Growth in the Global South

Jutta Bolt and Jan Luiten van Zanden

9. Living Standards under Colonialism

Dácil Juif and Pim de Zwart

10. Colonialism and Economic Inequality

Michiel de Haas and Emiliano Travieso

11. Christian Missions in the Global South: Diffusion, Development and Long-term Impact

Gabriele Cappelli

12. The Economic Roots and Drivers of Decolonisation, 1920 to 1975

Henrice Altink and David Clayton

Part 2

Empires and Regions

13. The Economic History of Colonial Continental Spanish America: Facts and Debates

Luis Bértola

14. The Convent and the Movie Studio: The Legacy of Spanish and American Rule in the Philippines

Leticia Abad, José-Antonio Espín-Sánchez, and Noel Maurer

15. Portuguese Rule in the Americas: Brazil, 1500-1822

Thales Zamberlan Pereira and Leonardo Weller

16. Portugal’s empire in Africa and Asia, 1415-1975

Nuno Palma

17. Capitalism and Modernity in the British Caribbean Plantation System: The Barbadian Agricultural Revolution

Trevor Burnard

18. Early United States History in Comparative Perspective

Hoyt Bleakley and Paul Rhode

19. Institutions and Economic Development on the Northern Frontier: The Economic History of Colonialism in Canada

Chris Minns

20. Australia and New Zealand: Resource Rich Outposts of the British Empire

Martin Shanahan

21. The Russian Empire

Amanda Gregg and Steven Nafziger

22. Globalization and Stagnation: The Indian Economy under Colonial Rule

Anand V. Swamy

23. The Colonial Economy of Indonesia (the Netherlands Indies): An Overview

Abdul Wahid and Bambang Purwanto

24. Similar but Different? Colonial Policies in Burma, British Malaya and Ceylon from 1870 to 1957

Anne Booth

25. French Indochina

Jean-Pascal Bassino

26. Neighbour Colonialism: Japanese Imperialism and its Consequences

Duol Kim

27. An Economic History of British Colonialism in Southern Africa, 1880-1980

Erik Green and Rory Pilossof

28. The Colonial State in the Middle East and North Africa

Laura Maravall and Laura Panza

29. Economic Development in British West Africa

Gareth Austin

30. French Colonialism in Sub-Saharan Africa

Denis Cogneau

31. East Africa under Colonial Rule: Trade, Labour and Economic Structures

Katharine Frederick and Karin Pallaver

32. German Colonialism in Africa and the Pacific, 1884-1914

Felix Meier zu Selhausen

33. Italian Africa

Mattia C. Bertazzini

34. Congo under Colonial Rule (1885-1960)

Frans Buelens

Part 3

Legacies and Debates

35. Colonialism and the Industrial Revolution

Mike O’Sullivan and Giorgio Riello

36. Global Business History after Colonialism

Stephanie Decker and Stefanie Kreibich

37. Post-colonial Development Policy

David Henley

38. Colonial Persistence

James Fenske, Bishnupriya Gupta, and Anwesh Mukhopadhyay

Index

Biography

Ewout Frankema is Professor of Economic and Environmental History at Wageningen University and research fellow of the UK Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). His research focuses on a deeper understanding of the long-term comparative economic development of developing regions (Africa, Latin America, Asia) and the historical origins and nature of present-day global inequality. Frankema currently works on the project South-South Divergence: Comparative Histories of Regional Integration in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa since 1850 funded by the Dutch Science Foundation.

Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics. Published extensively on South Asian history and comparative development and taught courses on South Asia and Global History. One of the editors of the Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia. Recent books include Monsoon Economies (2022) and Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy: India since 1947 (with Anand Swamy, 2021).