Includes bibliographical references.

Patrimonialism in America : The public domain in the making of modernity from colonial times to the late nineteenth century / John Hall -- Explaining the great continuity : ethnic institutions, colonialism, and social development in Spanish America / James Mahoney -- Limits of empire : the French colonial state and local patrimonialism in North Africa / Mounira Charrad, Daniel Jaster -- Patrimonialism, imperialism, and colonialism at the Cape of Good Hope under Dutch East India Company rule, c.1652-1795 / Kerry Ward -- Grandpa State instead of Bourgeois State : patrimonial politics in chinas Age of Commerce, 1644-1839 / Ho-Fung Hung -- Antipodean patrimonialism? Squattocracy, democracy and land rights in Australia / Pavla Miller -- Colonialism, neopatrimonialism and hybrid state formation / Daniel Goh -- Patrimonialism, bureaucratization, and fiscal systems of British Bengal, 1765-1819 / Malik Martin -- Innovations in trust : patrimonial and bureaucratic authority in the Asante Empire of West Africa / Nicolette Manglos-Weber -- Locating the family-state : the forgotten legacy of Javanese Theories of the public domain (17th -20th c.) / Romain Bertrand -- Sovereignty and sociology : from state theory to theories of empire / Julia Adams, George Steinmetz.

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