First Year of British Colonial Rule
| Quick info | |
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| Data type | Numeric |
| Scale | Date |
| Value labels |
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| Technical name | col_start_britain_max |
| Category | Violent Conflicts and Colonial Dependencies |
| Label | First Year of British Colonial Rule, last date version |
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First year during which country was colonized by Britain. Based on last date aggregation.
Coding rules
year, YYYY format. As there are many sources aggregation here "...is the last date mentioned across all sources, i.e. all sources agree that a certain territory has become/ceased to be a European colony." (Becker, 2019, p. 9)
Bibliographic info
Citation: Becker, Bastian, 2019, "Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT)", [1], Harvard Dataverse, V2
Related publications: related publications
Misc
Project manager(s): project managers
Data release: data release
Revisions: revisions
Sources
sources
