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Property Rights and Empire Building: Britain's Annexation of Lagos, 1861

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  • Hopkins, Antony G.

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Britain's acquisiton of Lagos has already attracted considerable historical research, but it is examined here from a new perspective and with the help of unused sources. Three conclusions are drawn. First, the episode itself is reinterpreted to give prominence to changing property rights as both a cause and a consequence of annexation. Second, it is argued that the Lagos case can be placed in a broader framework of imperial expansion in which institutional change formed the centerpiece of a nineteenth-century development drive. Third, it is suggested that the study of African history might benefit from assigning higher priority to the analysis of property rights other than those embodied in slave-holding.

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  • Hopkins, Antony G., 1980. "Property Rights and Empire Building: Britain's Annexation of Lagos, 1861," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(4), pages 777-798, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jechis:v:40:y:1980:i:04:p:777-798_10
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    1. Deepak Lal, 1999. "The Role of Economic Incentives and Disincentives In Effecting State Behavior," UCLA Economics Working Papers 809, UCLA Department of Economics.

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