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Northern deficit and southern revenue shape the merger

One motive for amalgamation was financial: southern customs revenue could support the more expensive northern administration.

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1914

Northern deficit and southern revenue shape the merger

One motive for amalgamation was financial: southern customs revenue could support the more expensive northern administration.

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One motive for amalgamation was financial: southern customs revenue could support the more expensive northern administration. This fiscal asymmetry became a hidden foundation of the colonial state.

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