Colonialism and Development (eBook, ePUB)

Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960
Redaktion: Havinden, Michael A.; Meredith, David

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 436
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134977376
• Artikelnr.: 42828960

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Havinden, David Meredith

Inhaltsangabe

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