Imperialism and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Economic and Business History of Sudan

ISBN-13: 9783030276386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 328 str.

Simon Mollan

Opis

This book examines the economic and business history of Sudan, placing Sudan into the wider context of the impact of imperialism on economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. From the 1870s onwards British interest(s) in Sudan began to intensify, a consequence of the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 and the overseas expansion of British business activities associated with the Scramble for Africa and the renewal of imperial impulses in the second half of the nineteenth century. Mollan shows the gradual economic embrace of imperialism in the years before 1899; the impact of imperialism on the economic development of colonial Sudan to 1956; and then the post-colonial economic legacy of imperialism into the 1970s. This text highlights how state-centred economic activity was developed in cooperation with British international business. Founded on an economic model that was debt-driven, capital intensive, and cash-crop oriented–the colonial economy of Sudan was centred on cotton growing. This model locked Sudan into a particular developmental path that, in turn, contributed to the nature and timing of decolonization, and the consequent structures of dependency in the post-colonial era. 

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Foundations of Imperialism in Sudan

Chapter 2. British Business and Sudan During the Mahdiya

Chapter 3. The Beginnings of Imperial Development, 1899-1919

Part II Business and Imperialism in Sudan

Chapter 4. The Sudan Plantations Syndicate, 1904-1919

Chapter 5. The Sudan Plantations Syndicate, 1919-1939

Part III The Political-Economy of Imperialism in Sudan

Chapter 6. The Economy of Sudan, 1919-1939

Chapter 7. The Relationship Between Business and Government to 1945

Chapter 8. War, Decolonization, and After

Part IV – Conclusions

Chapter 9.Conclusion: Business, Imperialism and the Organization of Economic Development in Sudan

O autorze

Simon Mollan is Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor in the Management School at the University of York (UK), where he was Head of the Head of the International Business, Strategy, and Management Group between 2012 and 2016. He is currently Director of the Sustainable Growth, Management, and Economic Productivity Pathway at the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership, and previously held academic posts at York St John University, Durham University, and the University of Liverpool. He is Associate Editor of the journal Essays in Economic and Business History, and has published widely in the field of international economic history, financial history, and business history.