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**nryFBa9i** · 10-04-2010, 12:36 AM

How does one account for colonies that changed hands? Like Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, or Tanzania, that went from German to British of French? Is the British finishing touch more important than the German foundation?

And should colonies that were made up mostly of actual European colonists (like Australia and NZ) be looked at the same was as Colonies where a foreign political power was imposed on an existing local system of rule? (Like India, Burma, the ME?)

I would posit that the fact Britain was rich and a state like Portugal wasn't would account for a lot of the development gap between the two. Not like the Portuguese state would be busy developing its colonies when it had a hard time developing its own core region.

10-04-2010, 12:36 AM	#11
nryFBa9i Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 429 Senior Member	How does one account for colonies that changed hands? Like Namibia, Cameroon, Togo, or Tanzania, that went from German to British of French? Is the British finishing touch more important than the German foundation? And should colonies that were made up mostly of actual European colonists (like Australia and NZ) be looked at the same was as Colonies where a foreign political power was imposed on an existing local system of rule? (Like India, Burma, the ME?) I would posit that the fact Britain was rich and a state like Portugal wasn't would account for a lot of the development gap between the two. Not like the Portuguese state would be busy developing its colonies when it had a hard time developing its own core region.
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