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Colonialism and Development Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960
434 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues. This study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies provides detailed analyses of trade and policy. The considerations of past successes and failures elucidate current opportunities and developments. No other book covers this broad topic with such detail and clarity.
1. Introduction and Framework 2. The Tropical Colonies in the Mid-Victorian Age: Opportunities and Problems 3. Early Development: Theory and the Spread of Empire 4. The Colonial `Scramble' and Joseph Chamberlain's Development Plans, 1885-1903 5. First Fruits: Colonial Development, 1903-1914 6. The Impact of the First World War and its Aftermath 7.The Economics of Trusteeship: Colonial Development Policy 1921-1929 8. Depression and Disillusion: the Colonial Economies in the 1930s 9. The `Colonial Question' and towards Colonial Reform, 1930-1940 10. A New Sense of Urgency: Planning for Colonial Economic Development during and after the Second World War, 1940-1948 11. An Impossible Task? Problems of Financing Colonial Economic and Social Development, 1946-1960 12. The Triumph of the Chamberlain View: New Directions in Colonial Economic Development after the Second Wrold War 13. `Developing the Great Estate': the Legacy of Colonialism and Development
Biography
Michael A. Havinden, David Meredith
`As a clear and accessible synthesis of wide-ranging material, this book will be a useful introductory text for undergraduates, and a valuable point of reference for specialist in the field.' - Jrnl of Imperial & Commonwealth History
`The book provides an excellent summary of recent research as well as supplying insights from new archival material.' - Economic History Review
`The statistics are fascinating, the comparisons illuminating, and the whole work has a firm chronological framework which carries the story across the great economic watersheds of the modern colonial century.' - History Today
