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Taxing colonial Africa: the political economy of British imperialism

Taxing Colonial Africa is the first monograph to be published on colonial fiscal systems in sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together archival research from a range of sources, including the national archives of several African countries, the UK, the USA, along with other repositories such as Rhodes House in Oxford and the World Bank archive in Washington, DC. This archival work included the compilation of a large quantity of financial data along with qualitative records from every level of government (from district to imperial). The book’s chronological span begins with imperial expansion in the late nineteenth century and ends after the first decade of independence in the 1970s.