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Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015051300385
Author : A.J.R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429780028
First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government: governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.
Author : A.J.R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : OCLC:1125071905
First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government: governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index.
Author : Professor A J R Russell-Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367111454
First published in 1999, this volume is an ambitious attempt to provide a wide-ranging introduction to local government in the overseas empires of Portugal, Spain, England and France, with further reference to the English East India Company and the Dutch East and West India Companies. In an exercise in compensatory history, the book examines government of empire not from the metropolitan perspective but at the local level, where government was most likely to impact on the everyday lives of both persons of European birth and indigenous peoples. The first part examines the institutional framework of local and regional government at the municipal, parish and county levels, extending this to include law and order, social welfare and education. The second part examines the social dimension of local government: governance in pluricultural societies; elite formation; creolization; representation and oligarchies; oversight, and negotiated authority. The work includes a comprehensive introduction, together with an extensive bibliography and a detailed index. Part one of two.
Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015051300260
Administration, and representative assemblies in New France); and the British empire (the 17th and 18th century Privy Council, the Board of Trade and London, His Majesty's council, Bermuda, the role of the lower houses of assembly in 18th century politics, the general assembly of the Leeward Islands, financial administration in Barbados, the courts in the American colonies, and indirect rule. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Anthony Pagden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351937429
The perception of Europeans of the world and of the peoples beyond Europe has become in recent years the subject of intense scholarly interest and heated debate both in and outside the academy. So, too, has the concern with how it was that those peoples who were variously ’discovered’, and then, as often as not, colonised, understood the strangers in their midst. This volume attempts to cover both these topics, as well as to provide a number of crucial articles on the difficulties faced by modern historians in understanding the complex, relationship between ’them’ and ’us’. Inevitably such relationships not only changed over time, they also varied greatly from culture to culture. The articles, therefore cover most of the areas with which the European world came into contact from the earliest Portuguese incursions into Africa in the mid fifteenth century until the explorations of Cook and Bougainville in the Pacific in the late eighteenth. It ranges, too, from Brazil to Russia, from Tahiti to China.
Author : Francisco Bethencourt,Diogo Ramada Curto
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521846448
A unique overview of Portuguese oceanic expansion between 1400 and 1800, the essays in this volume treat a wide range of subjects - economy and society, politics and institutions, cultural configurations and comparative dimensions - and radically update data and interpretations on the economic and financial trends of the Portuguese Empire. Interregional networks are analysed in a substantial way. Patterns of settlement, political configurations, ecclesiastical structures, and local powers are put in global context. Language and literature, the arts, and science and technology are revisited with refreshing and innovative approaches. The interaction between Portuguese and local people is studied in different contexts, while the entire imperial and colonial culture of the Portuguese world is looked at synthetically for the first time. In short, this book provides a broad understanding of the Portuguese Empire in its first four centuries as a factor in world history and as a major component of European expansion.
Author : Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004206908
By looking at Dutch and Portuguese systems of settlement and trade in Western Africa, this book sheds new light on the formation of Dutch and Portuguese imperial frames, forms of commercial organisation and their role on the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.
Author : Alexander Lee,Jack Paine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009423519
Why are some countries more democratic than others? For most non-European countries, elections began under Western colonial rule. However, existing research largely overlooks these democratic origins. Analyzing a global sample of colonies across four centuries, this book explains the emergence of colonial electoral institutions and their lasting impact. The degree of democracy in the metropole, the size of the white settler population, and pressure from non-Europeans all shaped the timing and form of colonial elections. White settlers and non-white middle classes educated in the colonizer's language usually gained early elections but settler minorities resisted subsequent franchise expansion. Authoritarian metropoles blocked elections entirely. Countries with lengthy exposure to competitive colonial institutions tended to consolidate democracies after independence. By contrast, countries with shorter electoral episodes usually shed democratic institutions and countries that were denied colonial elections consolidated stable dictatorships. Regime trajectories shaped by colonial rule persist to the present day.
Author : John Gerring,Brendan Apfeld,Tore Wig,Andreas Forø Tollefsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009100373
Explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion.
Author : Haruki Inagaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030736637
This book takes a closer look at colonial despotism in early nineteenth-century India and argues that it resulted from Indians’ forum shopping, the legal practice which resulted in jurisdictional jockeying between an executive, the East India Company, and a judiciary, the King’s Court. Focusing on the collisions that took place in Bombay during the 1820s, the book analyses how Indians of various descriptions—peasants, revenue defaulters, government employees, merchants, chiefs, and princes—used the court to challenge the government (and vice versa) and demonstrates the mechanism through which the lawcourt hindered the government’s indirect rule, which relied on local Indian rulers in newly conquered territories. The author concludes that existing political anxiety justified the East India Company’s attempt to curtail the power of the court and strengthen their own power to intervene in emergencies through the renewal of the company’s charter in 1834. An insightful read for those researching Indian history and judicial politics, this book engages with an understudied period of British rule in India, where the royal courts emerged as sites of conflict between the East India Company and a variety of Indian powers.
Author : Philip J. Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199930364
The Company-State offers a political and intellectual history of the English East India Company in the century before its acquisition of territorial power. It argues the Company was no mere merchant, but a form of early modern, colonial state and sovereign that laid the foundations for the British Empire in India.
Author : Anne G. Hanley
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226535104
Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public revenues are inadequate to provide those goods, inequality thrives and communities can verge into unrest—as evidenced by the riots during Greece’s financial meltdown and by the needless loss of life in Haiti’s collapse in the wake of the earthquake. In The Public Good and the Brazilian State, Anne G. Hanley assembles an economic history of public revenues as they developed in nineteenth-century Brazil. Specifically, Hanley investigates the financial life of the municipality—a district comparable to the county in the United States—to understand how the local state organized and prioritized the provision of public services, what revenues paid for those services, and what happened when the revenues collected failed to satisfy local needs. Through detailed analyses of municipal ordinances, mayoral reports, citizen complaints, and financial documents, Hanley sheds light on the evolution of public finance and its effect on the early economic development of Brazilian society. This deeply researched book offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to better understand how municipal finance informs histories of inequality and underdevelopment.
Author : A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Europe
ISBN : UOM:39015051300401
Administration, and representative assemblies in New France); and the British empire (the 17th and 18th century Privy Council, the Board of Trade and London, His Majesty's council, Bermuda, the role of the lower houses of assembly in 18th century politics, the general assembly of the Leeward Islands, financial administration in Barbados, the courts in the American colonies, and indirect rule. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Author : Karwan Fatah-Black
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004283350
In this volume, Fatah-Black untangles the ways in which metropolitan authorities were defied and evaded in the process of making Suriname a productive plantation colony between 1650 and 1800.
