Settler economies in world history / edited by Christopher Lloyd, Jacob Metzer, Richard Sutch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd, Christopher, 1950-

Metzer, Jacob.

Sutch, Ricchard.

Series:

Global Economic History Series 9.

Global economic history series, 1872-5155 ; vol. 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Developing countries.

Indigenous peoples.

Land settlement--Developing countries.

Land settlement.

Europe--Colonies.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (629 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Settler colonialism was a major aspect of the imperial age that began in the sixteenth century and has encompassed the whole world unto the present. Modern settler societies have together constituted one of the major routes to economic development from their foundation in resource abundance and labour scarcity. This book is a major and wide-ranging comparative historical enquiry into the experiences of the settler world. The roles of indigenous dispossession, large-scale immigrant labour, land abundance, trade, capital, and the settler institutions, are central to this economic formation and its history. The chapters examine those economies that emerged as genuine colonial hybrids out of their differing neo-European backgrounds, with distinctive post-independence structures and an institutional persistence into the present as independent states. Contributors include Stanley Engerman, Susan Carter, Henry Willebald, Luis Bertola, Claude Lützelschwab, Frank Tough, Kathleen Dimmer, Tony Ward, Drew Keeling, Carl Mosk, David Meredith, Martin Shanahan, John K Wilson, Bernard Attard, Grietjie Verhoef, Tim Rooth, Francine McKenzie, Jorge Alvarez, Jim McAloon, as well as the editors.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Christopher Lloyd , Jacob Metzer and Richard Sutch

Introduction: Toward a Unified Approach to the Economic History of Settler Economies / Richard Sutch

Settler Colonization and Societies in World History: Patterns and Concepts / Christopher Lloyd and Jacob Metzer

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 Bértola

Settler Colonialism in Africa / Claude Lützelschwab

Jews in Mandatory Palestine and Additional Phenomena of Atypical Settler Colonization in Modern Time / Jacob Metzer

“Great Frauds and Abuses”; Institutional Innovation at the Colonial Frontier of Private Property: Case Studies of the Individualization of Maori, Indian and Métis Lands / Frank Tough and Kathleen Dimmer

Aboriginal Economies in Settler Societies: Maori and Canadian Prairie Indians / Tony Ward

Patterns and Processes of Migration: An Overview / Drew Keeling

Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration in the Pacific / Carl Mosk

Coerced Labor 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

Wakefieldian Investment and the Birth of New Societies, circa 1830 to 1930 / Bernard Attard

Financial Intermediaries in Settler Economies: The Role of the Banking Sector Development in South Africa, 1850–2000 / Grietjie Verhoef

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

So Similar, So Different: New Zealand and Uruguay in the World Economy / Jorge Álvarez and Luis Bértola

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 / Christopher Lloyd , Jacob Metzer and Richard Sutch

Index / Christopher Lloyd , Jacob Metzer and Richard Sutch.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-95600-4

90-04-23265-6

OCLC:

826856151

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004232655 DOI