As XML data becomes central to business-critical applications, there is a growing need for efficient and reliable XML storage. Two main approaches have been proposed for storing XML data: native and colonial systems. Native systems (e.g., [9, 20]) are designed from the ground up specifically for XML and XML query languages. Colonial systems (e.g., [5, 7, 19]), on the other hand, attempt to reus...

This paper "reads" the scholarship of W. E. B. Du Bois and references East African history and historiography, including the broader pan-African tradition of which Du Bois was a leading member. Du Bois and his pan-African colleagues were often more accurate in their analyses and perception of biases and colonial myths than their Western counterparts. What is significant is that biases and myths...

Dilettante speculation has given currency to the notion that the English common law was not received by our several states until after the Revolution. According to this notion, there prevailed during the colonial period "a layman law, a popular, equitable system," 1 fostered by frontier conditions.2 Such views have infected even serious legal scholars, who have asserted that the common law in t...

Can local colonial institutions continue to affect people’s lives nearly 50 years after decolonization? Can meaningful differences in local institutions persist within a single set of national incentives? The literature on colonial legacies has largely focused on cross country comparisons between former French and British colonies, large-n cross sectional analysis using instrumental variables, ...

Historically, the fact that the people of Mindanao and Sulu were able to successfully resist all attempts to subjugate them only increased the obsession of the Spanish colonial government and of the church hierarchy to conquer the south and to convert the people to Catholicism. Thus was created the "Moro Problem" which, in the mind of colonial officials, was simply the problem of creating effec...

The student of colonial history who attempts to draw a comparison between Java (or rather, in view of the huge regional disparities: parts of Java) and parts of the Philippines (for instance Luzon) is struck by the sharp contrasts in development. While Javanese society during the 19th century, and well into the 20th century has remained a society of small peasants, in Luzon the process of colon...

This article takes issue with Stephen Lansing's bottom-up model of Balinese irrigation management. Based on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the former south Balinese kingdom of Mengwi, it is argued that in pre-colonial days large scale irrigation depended largely on dynastic involvement. During the colonial period (1906-1942) the Dutch took over the role of regional irrigation mana...