Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-767303-4 (ISBN)
The European powers that colonized much of the world over the last few hundred years created a variety of social systems in their various colonies. In Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects, Olukunle P. Owolabi explores the divergent developmental trajectories of Global South nations that were shaped by forced settlement, where European colonists imported African slaves to establish large-scale agricultural plantations, or by colonial occupation, which resulted in the exploitation of indigenous non-white populations. Owolabi shows that most forced settlement colonies emerged from European domination with higher levels of education attainment, greater postcolonial democratization, and favorable human development outcomes relative to Global South countries that emerged from colonial occupation after 1945. To explain this paradox, he examines the distinctive legal-administrative institutions that were used to control indigenous colonial subjects and highlights the impact of liberal reforms that expanded the legal rights and political agency of former slaves following abolition. Spanning three centuries of colonial history and postcolonial development, this is the first book to systematically examine the distinctive patterns of state-building that resulted from forced settlement and colonial occupation in the Black Atlantic world.
Olukunle P. Owolabi is an associate professor of political science at Villanova University, where he teaches courses on Comparative Politics, African Politics, comparative democratization, and the developmental legacies of colonialism. His research examines the developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation in the Global South and has been published in Comparative Politics. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.Phil in Latin American studies from Oxford University.
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List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Forced Settlement, Colonial Occupation, and the Historical Roots of Divergent Development in the Global South
2. A Historical Overview of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
3. Historical Institutionalism, Critical Junctures, and the Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation
4. A Global Statistical Analysis of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Colonial Institutions and Postcolonial Development
5. Comparing British Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Jamaica and Sierra Leone
6. Comparing Portuguese Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation: Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau
7. A Global Tour of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation under French Rule: From Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and Les Antilles to Algeria and Sub-Saharan Africa
8. Conclusions, Reflections, and Avenues for Future Research
Bibliography
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Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 12.04.2023 |
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Zusatzinfo | 9 b/w line drawings; 18 tables; 3 maps |
Verlagsort | New York |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 226 x 160 mm |
Gewicht | 544 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 0-19-767303-1 / 0197673031 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-767303-4 / 9780197673034 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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