This paper analyzes a central colonial institution: the monopolization of foreign trade through exclusive trading companies. We interpret this arrangement as an economic institution that creates a ...

Geographies of state transformation : the production of colonial state space -- Envisioning the colonial economy -- Mobile incarceration : travels in colonial state space -- Colonial pedagogical ...

Mercantilism is an economic policy designed to increase a nation's wealth through exports. It thrived in Great Britain between the 16th and 18th centuries. The country enjoyed the greatest benefits of ...

In 1825, a tax collector compiling a census in South Africa’s Cape Colony paused to write a poem in the margin of his work. In it, he complained about the idle chatter of townsmen in Stellenbosch and ...