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
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.