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How Africans Shaped British Colonial Institutions: Evidence from Local Taxation
The Journal of Economic History ( IF 2.459 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-02 , DOI: 10.1017/s0022050720000455
Jutta Bolt , Leigh Gardner

The institutions that governed most of the rural population in British colonial Africa have been neglected in the literature on colonialism. We use new data on local governments, or “Native Authorities,” to present the first quantitative comparison of African institutions under indirect rule in four colonies in 1948: Nigeria, the Gold Coast, Nyasaland, and Kenya. Tax data show that Native Authorities’ capacity varied within and between colonies, due to both underlying economic inequalities and African elites’ relations with the colonial government. Our findings suggest that Africans had a bigger hand in shaping British colonial institutions than often acknowledged.

中文翻译:

非洲人如何塑造英国殖民制度:来自地方税收的证据

统治英国殖民非洲大部分农村人口的制度在殖民主义文献中被忽视了。我们使用有关地方政府或“土著当局”的新数据,对 1948 年在四个殖民地(尼日利亚、黄金海岸、尼亚萨兰和肯尼亚)间接统治下的非洲机构进行了首次定量比较。税收数据显示,由于潜在的经济不平等和非洲精英与殖民政府的关系,土著当局的能力在殖民地内部和殖民地之间存在差异。我们的研究结果表明,非洲人在塑造英国殖民机构方面的影响力比人们通常承认的要大。
更新日期:2020-10-02
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