1st Edition

Development Studies and Colonial Policy

By Barbara Ingham, Colin Simmons Copyright 1987
    292 Pages
    by Routledge

    292 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1987. This volume is the product of a number of meetings held by the Third World History and Development Study Group, which is one of several study groups sponsored by the Development Studies Association. The Group was formed in 1978 at the Development Studies Association Conference held at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. It comprises people who for one reason or another wish to raise the status of historical work within development studies, seeking to redefine the scope and enlarge upon its role. The present collection of essays represents research which has been done both on procedures and methodology in development studies, and on colonialism as a historical process relevant to the study of underdevelopment.

    Notes on Contributors, Preface, PART ONE, 1. Economic Development and Economic History, 2. ‘Economic Development’: A Suitable Case for Treatment?, PART TWO, 3. Colonialism and Peripheral Development, 4. British Export Interests in Bengal and Imperial Expansion into South-east Asia, 1780 to 1824: The Origins of the Straits Settlements, 5. Tribesmen, Government and Political Economy on the North-West Frontier, 6. Colonial Education Policy and Manpower Underdevelopment in British Malaya, 7. The East African Sisal Industry, 1929–49: The Marketing of a Colonial Commodity during Depression and War, 8. Colonialism and the Economy of the Gold Coast 1919–45, 9. The Colonial Economy: Nigeria and the Second World War

    Biography

    Dr Barbara Ingham is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Salford, and Director of the University’s Centre for Development Studies. Dr Colin Simmons is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Salford, with special interests in Third World history, and the economic history of India.