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| ISBN: | 9780511749575
0511749570
9780511743023
0511743025
9780511750328
0511750323
9786612631511
6612631511
9780511744105
0511744102
0521116341
9780521116343
9780521133289
0521133289
9780521133289
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-382) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being. Mahoney contends that differences in the extent of colonialism are best explained by the potentially evolving fit between the institutions of the colonizing nation and those of the colonized society. Moreover, he shows how institutions forged under colonialism bring countries to relative levels of development that may prove remarkably enduring in the postcolonial period. The argument is sure to stir discussion and debate, both among experts on Spanish America who believe that development is not tightly bound by the colonial past, and among scholars of colonialism who suggest that the institutional identity of the colonizing nation is of little consequence. -- Publisher description.
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| Other form: | Print version: Mahoney, James, 1968- Colonialism and postcolonial development. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521116343
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