`Tony Barnett uses a sociological perspective to demonstrate that the problems of development are more than simply `education and charity'.' - Times Higher Education Supplement
Part One: Introduction and Overview; 1 Feeling the effects of development; 2 Development theory: the light of experience; Part Two: Town and Countryside; 3 Urbanisation and urbanism; 4 Industrialisation; 5 Rural development: entering the market; 6 Rural development and social differentiation; 7 State, government and education; 8 Gender and development; Part Three: Themes in the Sociology of Development; 9 Defining and measuring development; 10 Case material; Afterword; Glossary; Bibliography; Index;