Colonialism and Development: Britain and its Tropical Colonies, 1850-1960

ISBN-13: 9780415020435 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 436 str.

Michael Ashley Havinden; M. Havinden; David Meredith

Opis

This is a study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies between 1850 and 1960. These colonies stretched right around the world from the West Indies, through West, Central and East Africa to Mauritius, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Fiji and the smaller Pacific islands. The study focuses on the former colonies and their development problems (rather than on Britain) because this provides a crucial background to understanding the present opportunities and difficulties facing these countries since their independence. The gradual evolution of policy, the early successes and later frustrations, are analyzed in detail to see what light they can shed on today's problems.

Recenzje

`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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Michael A. Havinden, David Meredith