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Indigenous Politics and Colonial Administration with special reference to Australia*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

J. A. Barnes
J. A. Barnes
Affiliation:
Australian National University
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In an age of crumbling empires, when many former colonial territories are becoming politically independent, it may still be instructive to study the processes by which empires and nations have been built up. What political forms have been involved and how have they been modified and developed? The new nations of Africa and Asia now emerging have political structures that bear a generic resemblance to the established democracies and dictatorships of Europe. These forms of organization seem to be a necessary requirement for membership of the United Nations, and are widely held to be essential if there is to be a flexible industrial and commercial economy, centralized administration and widespread literacy. None of the United Nations enjoys an entirely subsistence economy or relies only on communication by word of mouth. They all have courts of law, standing armies and at least the beginnings of a bureaucracy.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , January 1960 , pp. 133 - 149
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1960

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