Settler Economies in World History
Edited by Christopher Lloyd, Universities of New England and Helsinki University, Jacob Metzer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Richard Sutch, University of California Riverside, and National Bureau of Economic Research
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Biographical note
Christopher Lloyd, PhD (1991) is professor of economic history in the University of New England, Australia, and visiting professor at Helsinki University, Finland. His fields of research have included historical theory, Australian historical political economy, comparative welfare states, and Australian Aboriginal history.
Jacob Metzer is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research areas include the economic history of Mandatory Palestine and Israel, Jewish migration and employment patterns, economic aspects of ethno-nationalism, and the economics of settler societies.
Richard Sutch is an economic historian, a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as the President of the International Economic History Association.
Jacob Metzer is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research areas include the economic history of Mandatory Palestine and Israel, Jewish migration and employment patterns, economic aspects of ethno-nationalism, and the economics of settler societies.
Richard Sutch is an economic historian, a Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of California, Riverside, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as the President of the International Economic History Association.
Readership
Scholars and students of modern world economic history in general as well as those interested in the comparative economic and institutional history of the settler regions such as North America, Southern South America, Australasia, Southern and Northern Africa, and Palestine.
Table of contents
Introduction: 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
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
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