Managing British Colonial and Post-colonial Development
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1843833018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA survey of the Crown Agents during a turbulent and eventful period.
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Colonialism and Postcolonial Development
Author: James Mahoney
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-02-15
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1139483889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this comparative-historical analysis of Spanish America, Mahoney offers a new theory of colonialism and postcolonial development. He explores why certain kinds of societies are subject to certain kinds of colonialism and why these forms of colonialism give rise to countries with differing levels of economic prosperity and social well-being. Mahoney contends that differences in the extent of colonialism are best explained by the potentially evolving fit between the institutions of the colonizing nation and those of the colonized society. Moreover, he shows how institutions forged under colonialism bring countries to relative levels of development that may prove remarkably enduring in the postcolonial period. The argument is sure to stir discussion and debate, both among experts on Spanish America who believe that development is not tightly bound by the colonial past, and among scholars of colonialism who suggest that the institutional identity of the colonizing nation is of little consequence.
Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 1
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1351112538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
Communications in Africa, 1880–1939 (set)
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-24
Total Pages: 2144
ISBN-13: 1351112260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.
The Business of Development in Post-Colonial Africa
Author: Véronique Dimier
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-03-13
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 3030511065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together a range of case studies by both established and early career scholars to consider the nexus between business and development in post-colonial Africa. A number of contributors examine the involvement of European companies (most notably those of former colonial powers) in development in various African states at the end of empire and in the early post-colonial era. They explore how businesses were not just challenged by the new international landscape but benefited from the opportunities it offered, particularly those provided by development aid. Other contributors focus on the development agencies of the departing colonial powers to consider how far these served to promote the interests of European companies. Together these case studies constitute an important contribution to our understanding of both business and development in post-colonial Africa, redressing an imbalance in existing histories of both business and development which focus predominantly on the colonial period. This volume breaks new ground as one of the very first to bring the study of foreign companies and development aid into the same frame of analysis
Economic Development of Africa, 1880-1939 vol 1
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-28
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1040249698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the main motives for British imperialism in Africa was economic gain. This collection examines the ways in which Britain developed Africa, and, in so doing, benefited her own economy.
Education and Development in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Author: Damiano Matasci
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-01-03
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 3030278018
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access edited volume offers an analysis of the entangled histories of education and development in twentieth-century Africa. It deals with the plurality of actors that competed and collaborated to formulate educational and developmental paradigms and projects: debating their utility and purpose, pondering their necessity and risk, and evaluating their intended and unintended consequences in colonial and postcolonial moments. Since the late nineteenth century, the “educability” of the native was the subject of several debates and experiments: numerous voices, arguments, and agendas emerged, involving multiple institutions and experts, governmental and non-governmental, religious and laic, operating from the corridors of international organizations to the towns and rural villages of Africa. This plurality of expressions of political, social, cultural, and economic imagination of education and development is at the core of this collective work.
Empire, Development & Colonialism
Author: Mark Duffield
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1847010776
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection explores the similarities, differences and overlaps between the contemporary debates on international development and humanitarian intervention and the historical artefacts and strategies of Empire. It includes views by historians and students of politics and development, drawing on a range of methodologies and approaches. The parallels between the language of nineteenth-century liberal imperialism and the humanitarian interventionism of the post-Cold War era are striking. The American military, both in Somalia in the early 1990s and in the aftermath the Iraq invasion, used ethnographic information compiled by British colonial administrators. Are these interconnections, which are capable of endless multiplication, accidental curiosities or more elemental? The contributors to this book articulate the belief that these comparisons are not just anecdotal but are analytically revealing. From the language of moral necessity and conviction, the design of specific aid packages; the devised forms of intervention and governmentality, through to the life-style, design and location of NGO encampments, the authors seek to account for the numerous and often striking parallels between contemporary international security, development and humanitarian intervention, and the logic of Empire. MARK DUFFIELD is Professor of Development Politics at the University of Bristol; VERNON HEWITT is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol Southern Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Namibia): HSRC Press
British Economic Development in South East Asia, 1880-1939, Volume 1
Author: David Sunderland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 415
ISBN-13: 1351573136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection focuses on the economic development of the areas of SE Asia with which Britain had a trading relationship. Covering 1880-1939, the economic growth of the region is revealed through a selection of rare primary resources organized thematically with sections dedicated to agriculture, mining, trade, labour, finance and infrastructure.
Governance, Resistance and the Post-Colonial State
Author: Jonathan Murphy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-14
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 1134842198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe manifestation of the colonial nation-state as a legal-bureaucratic-police structure – an exploitation tool – undermined customary modes of governance in colonies. When post-World War II independence of colonies transferred ownership of the state structure to the colonized elite, electoral and civil society politics battled for capture of this post-colonial state. Meanwhile, the state was also forced to build its legitimacy in the face of customary governance practices seeking rehabilitation and decolonization in the midst of civil wars and strife. This "state-building social movement" was further complicated with the global spread of neoliberalism and neocolonialism, and herein lies the significant difference between the post-colonial nation-state and the Western nation-states. This book fills the gap in literature and argues that it is necessary to foreground discussions of the nature of the post-colonial nation-state in examining resistance and provides a window into the dynamics of the post-colonial state and its implication in everyday organizing and resistance.
