عنوان

Colonial taxation in Africa. A fiscal history of the Congo through the lens of customs (1886-1914)

شماره

LA107832

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Colonial taxation in Africa. A fiscal history of the Congo through the lens of customs (1886-1914)

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Bas De Roo

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

"Every colonial state in Africa faced the fiscal challenge of ruling vast, inaccessible and thinly populated territories that produced relatively little taxable wealth, without metropolitan grants-in-aid and with limited access to international bond markets. How colonial states dealt with this challenge determined how much resources could be invested in the administration of African colonies and how the colonizer interacted with the colonized. As such, taxation fundamentally shaped colonial rule. Thus far, most scholars have either studied the practice of "native" taxation or the general spending and revenue-raising patterns of colonial administrations. This thesis shines a new light on the fiscal history of colonial Africa - as well as the colonial history of the Congo - by focusing on customs, the second fiscal pillar on which African colonial states were founded. Every colonial state in Africa faced the fiscal challenge of ruling vast, inaccessible and thinly populated territories that produced relatively little taxable wealth, without metropolitan grants-in-aid and with limited access to international bond markets. How colonial states dealt with this challenge determined how much resources could be invested in the administration of African colonies and how the colonizer interacted with the colonized. As such, taxation fundamentally shaped colonial rule. Thus far, most scholars have either studied the practice of "native" taxation or the general spending and revenue-raising patterns of colonial administrations. This thesis shines a new light on the fiscal history of colonial Africa - as well as the colonial history of the Congo - by focusing on customs, the second fiscal pillar on which African colonial states were founded."

تاريخ نشر

2017

توصيف ظاهري

61-65

عنوان

Afrika Focus

شماره جلد

30/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

2031-356X

اصطلاح موضوعی

Belgian Congo

اصطلاح موضوعی

colonial history

اصطلاح موضوعی

Congo Free State

اصطلاح موضوعی

fiscal history

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Bas De Roo

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/2031356X-03002006

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y