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"Colonial governance" as a book category covers the institutions, policies, practices and ideas used by imperial powers to rule colonies and dependent territories from the early modern period through the twentieth century and their immediate aftermath. It includes studies of administrative structures and bureaucracies, legal and fiscal systems, military and police control, settler and indirect rule models, and the ideological rationales that justified imperial authority, as well as the ways colonized peoples negotiated, resisted, or adapted to those systems. Works range from comparative and regional histories to case studies, biographies of colonial officials, archival editions, and theoretical or interdisciplinary analyses in political science, law, economics and anthropology. The category also embraces the legacies of colonial governance—how institutions, boundaries and policies shaped postcolonial states and contemporary debates about sovereignty, development and memory.

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