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Colonialism
How Unfair Trade Changed the World
From: The Fair Trade Handbook
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This chapter provides a short history of colonialism, and describes how the economic benefits of colonialism flowed from the colonized to the colonizers, especially through a process of resource extraction.
Contributors
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi
Haroon Akram-Lodhi teaches agrarian political economy. He is a professor of economics and international development studies at Trent University and is also editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies.