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  title info:
    title: Capital and Colonialism
    sub title: The Return on British Investments in Africa 1869-1969
  name:
    name part: Rönnbäck, Klas.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Broberg, Oskar.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 402 p. 42 illus., 7 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book engages in the long-standing debate on the relationship between capitalism and colonialism. Specifically, Rönnbäck and Broberg study the interaction between imperialist policies, colonial institutions and financial markets. Their primary method of analysis is examining micro- and macro-level data relating to a large sample of ventures operating in Africa and traded on the London Stock Exchange between 1869 and 1969. Their study shows that the relationship between capital and colonialism was highly complex. While return from investing in African colonies on average was not extraordinary, there were certainly many occasions when investors enjoyed high return due to various forms of exploitation. While there were actors with rational calculations and deliberate strategies, there was also an important element of chance in determining the return on investment - not least in the mining sector, which overall was the most important business for investment in African ventures during this period. This book finally also demonstrates that the different paths of decolonization in Africa had very diverse effects for investors.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Research design -- Chapter 2: Historical context -- Chapter 3: Capital and colonialism in theory -- Chapter 4: Previous research -- Chapter 5: Method and data -- Part II: Aggregate results -- Chapter 6: The rate of return on investment in Africa -- Chapter 7: Risk and return -- Part III: Regional studies -- Chapter 8: North Africa -- Chapter 9: West Africa -- Chapter 10: Central/Southern Africa -- Chapter 11: South Africa -- Part IV: Thematical studies -- Chapter 12: On the ground floor -- Chapter 13: Imperial profits -- Chapter 14: African mining in global perspective -- Chapter 15: Conclusion.
  note: by Klas Rönnbäck, Oskar Broberg.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
  subject:
    topic: Africa-Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Industrial organization
  subject:
    topic: Development economics
  subject:
    topic: Labor economics
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism and Colonialism
  subject:
    topic: African Economics
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Organization
  subject:
    topic: Development Economics
  subject:
    topic: Labor Economics
  classification: HC
  classification: 330.9
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
  identifier: 9783030197117
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19711-7
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    record creation date: 190711
    record change date: 20190904151944.0
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