Essays on economic development: pre-independent Algeria at the beginning of the 1900s

Maravall Buckwalter, Laura

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Essays on economic development: pre-independent Algeria at the beginning of the 1900s

dc.contributor.advisor	Simpson, James
dc.contributor.advisor	Lampe, Markus
dc.contributor.advisor	Roses, Joan R.
dc.contributor.author	Maravall Buckwalter, Laura
dc.contributor.departamento	UC3M. Departamento de Ciencias Sociales	es
dc.coverage.spatial	east=6.642432999999983; north=36.360155; name=Constantine, Argelia
dc.date.accessioned	2017-09-29T09:35:59Z
dc.date.available	2017-09-29T09:35:59Z
dc.date.issued	2017-06
dc.date.submitted	2017-07-20
dc.description	Mención Internacional en el título de doctor
dc.description.abstract	This thesis examines rural settlement in the department of Constantine in French Algeria at the turn of the twentieth century, shedding light onto the mechanisms through which its agrarian structure was altered. Historians argue that the Algerian economy was transformed during French colonization. With the arrival of the French in the 1830s, the colonial administration aimed to establish a settler rural society based on smallholdings and family farms. Instead, it resulted in a speculative cash crop production colony based on relatively large estates devoted mainly to the cultivation of wheat and wine. It is frequently argued that colonialism forged a dual economy between an Algerian or indigenous “traditional” subsistence rural sector and a settler “modern” export-led one. Additionally, the progressive tendency towards large cash crop estates led to the “crowding out” or decline of smallholding settlers. Thus, on the eve of Independence in 1962, the country was not only endowed with high levels of land inequality and a dual economy and society, but it became clear that the colonial administration had failed to achieve what it had initially hoped for: a smallholding family farm type of settler economy.	en
dc.description.degree	Programa Oficial de Doctorado en Historia Económica	es
dc.description.responsability	Presidente: Giovanni Federico; Secretario: Ewout H. P. Frankema; Vocal: Alfonso Herranz Loncán	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/25372
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España
dc.rights.accessRights	open access
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
dc.subject.eciencia	Economía	es
dc.subject.other	Desarrollo económico	es
dc.subject.other	Argelia	es
dc.subject.other	Época colonial	es
dc.title	Essays on economic development: pre-independent Algeria at the beginning of the 1900s	en
dc.type	doctoral thesis	*
dspace.entity.type	Publication