Research Note: Measuring the Impacts of Colonialism: A New Data Set for the Countries of Africa and Asia

We present a new dataset with 15 indicators for the political, economic and social impact of colonialism. This dataset and our four indices for the impact of colonialism create for the first time the opportunity to compare directly the levels of colonial transformation for a sample of 83 African and...

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Main Authors: Patrick Ziltener, Daniel Künzler, André Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2017-02-01
Series:Journal of World-Systems Research
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Online Access:http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/683