The Long Economic And Political Shadow Of History Volume Ii Africa And Asia Stelios Michalopoulos by Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou 9780995470163, 0995470162 instant download after payment.

The imprint of the European colonisers on contemporary African development and culture is multifaceted and far-reaching. This volume provides an overview of how economists have attempted to shed light on these legacies. The range of the topics covered is breathtaking, starting from the slave trades, continuing with the drawing of the colonial borders in European capitals, the extent of indirect rule, the use of bloody concessions in DRC, the investments in transportation infrastructure, the role of Christian missions, and ending with the type of the independence movements in Africa. The geographic focus of the volume then turns to exploring specific aspects of the colonising experience in Asia and the Pacific looking at the role of direct versus indirect British rule in India, the economic trajectory of China’s treaty ports and the impact on current-day gender attitudes of the male- biased sex ratios of early colonisers in Australia.
To get to these fascinating questions a wealth of diverse sources including historical archives, anthropological maps, and satellite images are fruitfully combined and subjected to state of the art econometric techniques and theoretical models. The findings of this ambitious research agenda are novel highlighting the shadow of history on the various aspects of the economy and the polity. While there are many open issues and debates and although development is not deterministic, one message is clear: We are shaped by history (Martin Luther King Jr).