To the historian, the 'historical' experience of leprosy control is not simply a backdrop to contemporary patterns or problems in disease control. The control of leprosy has been enacted in different ways in localities, territories and states across the world. The specific clinical, political, and institutional choices made in leprosy control have been highly significant in shaping attitudes an...

Dramatic or mundane, passive or active, confrontations and negotiations, over natural resources, between the colonizer and the colonized manifest repudiation, uprisings, rebellions and even organized violent confrontationist movements. The basis of scientific forestry that allowed the state to commercially exploit the forests, putting curbs on the local use of subsistence, led to the formation ...

Nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. The Nigerian Government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

This paper examines the effect of the sale of appointments in the Spanish colonial government on the rent-extractive practices of colonial officials between 1687 and 1750. I exploit exogenous variation in the timing and number of positions sold in the colonial government of Peru to identify how institutional capture by a local elite leads to greater economic extraction and negative long-term de...

Dendrophyllid Scleractinia exhibit a variety of colonial morphologies, formed under the strict constraints on (1) budding sites, (2) orientations of the directive septa of offsets, (3) inclination of budding direction, and (4) those constraints in every generation. Dendrophyllia cribrosa exhibits a sympodial dendroid form, characteristically large coralla, and occasional fusions of adjacent bra...

moments when it seemed possible for Latin American and Indian anti-colonial and subaltern theoretical writing to generate a mutually fruitful dialogue. This dialogue was directed towards the possibility of identifying the terrain on which the epistemological hegemony of Western Europe could be countered. Unlike the essay ‘Coloniality of Power and Subalternity’ that deals directly with the South...

In recent years, the Marxian concept of primitive accumulation has become increasingly prominent in discussions of capitalist development in third world countries. 1 It is argued within the literature that neoliberal globalization has greatly hastened the process of dispossession of resources through large scale privatization of land, water, forests etc which can best be captured through the le...

This article focuses on culture and rule of law in Indonesia, which provides an excellent case study in colonialism and post-colonialism. The colonial heritage of the Indonesian islands goes back to the early 1500s and lasted for approximately four centuries (Schultz 2002:144145) until independence was declared in August 1945 (GoGwilt 1996: 158). This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer i...

Using a new database of islands throughout the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans we find a robust positive relationship between the number of years spent as a European colony and current GDP per capita. We argue that the nature of discovery and colonization of islands provides random variation in the length and type of colonial experience. We instrument for length of colonization using variat...

This paper extends the existing literature on accounting and colonialism. The question addressed in this paper is what would happen if the historical and political processes were disrupted to the extent that the development of an accounting practice and profession linked to colonial powers was no longer inevitable. Given the French colonial history it is reasonable to expect that Cambodia would...