Colonial Exploitation
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Colonial Exploitation
Colonial Exploitation examines how the pursuit of colonies irrevocably shaped the modern world, focusing on the lasting legacies of exploitation that continue to influence global dynamics. It argues that understanding the intricacies of colonial exploitation is crucial for grasping today's geopolitical tensions, economic inequalities, and cultural clashes. The book highlights how colonies were systematically used as sources of raw materials and captive markets, leading to significant underdevelopment of local industries. It also explores how colonizers imposed foreign languages and educational systems while suppressing indigenous traditions, fundamentally altering colonized societies. The book begins by establishing a theoretical foundation, defining colonialism, imperialism, and neo-colonialism. It then progresses through three sections, analyzing the economic dimensions of exploitation, cultural impacts, and political strategies used to maintain control. Unlike traditional accounts, this study balances the narrative by giving substantial attention to the experiences and perspectives of colonized peoples, highlighting their resistance and resilience. Culminating by connecting historical patterns to contemporary issues such as global trade imbalances and political instability, Colonial Exploitation demonstrates how the past continues to shape our present. This approach provides readers with a balanced account that challenges simplistic narratives and encourages a critical re-evaluation of global power dynamics, making it valuable for anyone interested in world history and postcolonial studies.
Colonial Exploitation and Economic Development
Since many countries in the world at present were European colonies in the not so distant past, the relationship between colonial institutions and development outcomes is a key topic of study across many disciplines. This edited volume, from a leading international group of scholars, discusses the comparative legacy of colonial rule in the Netherlands Indies and Belgian Congo during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Whereas the Indonesian economy progressed rapidly during the last three decades of the twentieth century and became a self-reliant and assertive world power, the Congo regressed into a state of political chaos and endemic violence. To which extent do the different legacies of Dutch and Belgian rule explain these different development outcomes, if they do at all? By discussing the comparative features and development of Dutch and Belgian rule, the book aims to 1) to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of colonial institutional legacies in long run patterns of economic divergence in the modern era; 2) to fill in a huge gap in the comparative colonial historical literature, which focuses largely on the comparative evolution of the British, French, Spanish and Portuguese Empires; 3) to add a focused and well-motivated comparative case-study to the increasing strand of literature analyzing the marked differences in economic and political development in Asia and Africa during the postcolonial era. Covering such issues as agriculture, manufacturing and foreign investment, human capital, fiscal policy, labour coercion and mineral resource management, this book offers a highly original and scholarly contribution to the literature on colonial history and development economics.
Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
This book offers new perspectives on the history of exploitation in Africa by examining postcolonial misrule as a product of colonial exploitation. Political independence has not produced inclusive institutions, economic growth, or social stability for most Africans—it has merely transferred the benefits of exploitation from colonial Europe to a tiny African elite. Contributors investigate representations of colonial and postcolonial exploitation in literature and rhetoric, covering works from African writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kwame Nkrumah, and Bessie Head. It then moves to case studies, drawing lines between colonial subjugation and present-day challenges through essays on Mobutu’s Zaire, Nigerian politics, the Italian colonial fascist system, and more. Together, these essays look towards how African states may transform their institutions and rupture lingering colonial legacies.