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The Lagos Consulate, 1851–1861: An outline
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The British reduction of Lagos in 1851, their establishment of a semi-protectorate under the consuls, and the annexation of 1861 were due to a complex of causes, partly British, partly African.Abstract:
The British reduction of Lagos in 1851, their establishment of a semi-protectorate under the consuls, and the annexation of 1861 were due to a complex of causes, partly British, partly African: the movement to suppress the slave trade and to prevent its revival under the guise of contract labour; the encouragement of legitimate trade; the need to protect British and immigrant interests; missionary ambition; French rivalry; the rift in and subsequent weakness of the monarchy; the disordered state of the interior; the Dahomean threat to Abeokuta. Benjamin Campbell, the first substantive consul, laid the foundations of British rule, while his short-lived successors Brand and Foote helped to persuade the British Government that it was desirable and feasible to effect the transition to a colony. The consular decade at Lagos was a time of change which foreshadowed many of the issues of the Partition and was the first step in the making of Nigeria.read more
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State-directed development : political power and industrialization in the global periphery
TL;DR: In this article, states and industrialization in the global periphery are discussed. But the focus is on the role of states and their role in the development of a modern political economy.
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State-Directed Development
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of different types of colonialisms in the process of state construction in the developing world and argued that cohesive-capitalist states have been most effective at promoting industrialization and neo-patrimonial states the least.
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Historical dictionary of Nigeria
Toyin Falola,Ann Genova +1 more
TL;DR: The Historical Dictionary of Nigeria as mentioned in this paper introduces Nigeria's rich and complex history and provides a wealth of information on important contemporary issues like AIDS, human rights, petroleum, and faith-based conflict.
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State-Directed Development: The Colonial Origins of a Modern Political Economy: The Japanese Lineage of Korea's Cohesive-Capitalist State
TL;DR: This article traced the colonial origins of three patterns that we now readily associate with the South Korean "model" and discussed how the Korean state was transformed under Japanese influence from a relatively corrupt and ineffective agrarian bureaucracy into a highly authoritarian, penetrating organization, capable of controlling and transforming Korean society.
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State-Directed Development: Introduction: States and Industrialization in the Global Periphery
TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at the role states have played in fostering different rates and patterns of economic development, especially via deliberate industrialization, and the search for development among late-late-industrializers of Asia, Africa, and Latin America intensified mainly after the Second World War.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census
TL;DR: Curtin combines modern research and statistical methods with his broad knowledge of the field to present the first book-length quantitative analysis of the Atlantic slave trade as mentioned in this paper, which suggests revision of currently held opinions concerning the place of the slave trade in the economies of the Old World nations and their American colonies.