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Book SynopsisSettler 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.
Trade Review"The [...] volume is a warmly welcomed addition to [the] expanding literature on the unity of the settler economy experience. [...] Settler Economies in World History provides an entertaining and valuable snapshot of the state of research in different branches of the economic history of settler societies. [...] [I]t represents a worthwhile addition to our growing knowledge of settler societies and their economies." – Gary B. Magee, in: Settler Colonial Studies 4/1 (2014), pp. 122-124 [DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2013.831337]
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Toward a Unified Approach to the Economic History of Settler Economies, Richard Sutch 1. Settler Colonization and Societies in World History: Patterns and Concepts, Christopher Lloyd and Jacob Metzer PART A – GENERAL PERSPECTIVES 2. Why the Settlers Soared: The Dynamics of Immigration and Economic Growth in the ‘Golden Age’ for settler Societies, Susan Carter and Richard Sutch 3. Five Hundred Years of European Colonization: Inequality and Paths of Development, Stanley Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff 4. Uneven Development Paths Among Settler Societies, 1870-2000, Henry Willebald and Luis Bértola 5. Settler Colonialism in Africa, Claude Lützelschwab 6. Jews in Mandatory Palestine and Additional Phenomena of Atypical Settler Colonization in Modern Time, Jacob Metzer PART B - COMPARATIVE THEMES Settler-Indigenous Relations 7. Dispossession by the Market on the Frontier of Property Systems: Case Studies of the Maori Land Court, Indian Reservation Allotment, and Métis Scrip, Frank Tough and Kathleen Dimmer 8. The Aboriginal Economy in Settler Societies: Maori and Canadian Prairie Indians, Tony Ward Labor and Migration 9. Patterns and Processes of Migration, Drew Keeling 10. Three Island Frontiers: Japanese Migration in the Pacific, Carl Mosk 11. Coerced Labour in Southern Hemisphere Settler Economies, David Meredith 12. Labor Market Outcomes in settler Economies Between 1870 and 1913: Accounting for Differences in Labor Hours and Occupations, Martin Shanahan and John K Wilson Finance and Capital Flows 13. Wakefieldian Investment and the Birth of New Societies, c 1830-1930, Bernard Attard 14. Financial Intermediaries in Settler Economies, Grietjie Verhoef Trade and Investment 15. International Trade and Investment of the Settler Economies during the Twentieth Century: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, Tim Rooth 16. Trade, Dominance, Dependence and the end of the Settlement Era in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, 1920-1973, Francine McKenzie Institutional Development 17. So Similar, So Different: New Zealand and Uruguay in the World Economy, Jorge Alvarez and Luis Bértola 18. The State and Economic Development in 20th Century Australia and New Zealand, Jim McAloon 19. Institutional Patterns of the Settler Societies: Hybrid, Parallel, and Convergent, Christopher Lloyd Index
