Essays Tagged: "colonial administration"

The Stamp Act Protest. After the French and Indian War. British tried to recover from Debt.

ney into the Royal Treasury, to develop the imperial merchant fleet in order to channel the flow of colonial raw materials into England. Then came the passage of the Sugar Act raising duty on sugar. T ... sugar. This was an effort by the British to raise money in America to support the increased cost of colonial administration. The colonists were also forced into a Quartering Act in which they would pr ...

(2 pages) 119 0 3.8 May/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Colonial Policies: A focus on British Colonial Policy Concerning The Lucrative Palm Oil industry in Nigeria

IntroductionPrior to the institution of British colonial administration among the Isoko, Urhobo populace of the Western Delta region of Nigeria, the ... the extended family.The reason for individual involvement in the processing of palm oil in the pre-colonial period stemmed from the person, whether man or woman, who stood to gain from the exercise. ... into the trough.Palm oil made immense contribution towards meeting the socio- economic needs of pre-colonial Isoko-Urhobo people of the Western Delta.BRITISH COLONIAL MANAGEMENT AND THE OIL PALM INDUS ...

(19 pages) 66 0 4.6 Sep/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

Industrial Relations System: Singapore

There are four notable transformations of Singapore's industrial relations since its emergence as a Colonial Administration in 1960. The first was a result of Government's commitment to industrialisat ... result of Government's commitment to industrialisation after being released from the constraints of colonial administration. The second was shift to corporatism and was evident in the strategic initia ...

(14 pages) 164 0 3.0 May/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

"Civil Peace" by Chinua Achebe

were once a part of the Igbo civilization by "interviewing older people and reading the writings of colonial administration missionaries" ("Short Stories for Students Volume" pg. 17). Once the civil w ...

(6 pages) 40 0 3.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature