Author: Archibald ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
East Africa, a New Dominion
Author: Archibald ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Triumph of the Expert
Author: Joseph Morgan HodgePublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821442260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire. Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period. Joseph Morgan Hodge examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire. Hodge looks intently at the structural constraints, bureaucratic fissures, and contradictory imperatives that beset and ultimately overwhelmed the late colonial development mission in sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Triumph of the Expert seeks to understand the quandaries that led up to the important transformation in British imperial thought and practice and the intellectual and administrative legacies it left behind.
The Ibis
Author: Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Africa as a Living Laboratory
Author: Helen TilleyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226803481
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods. Africa as a Living Laboratory is a far-reaching study of the thorny relationship between imperialism and the role of scientific expertise—environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological—in the colonization of British Africa. A key source for Helen Tilley’s analysis is the African Research Survey, a project undertaken in the 1930s to explore how modern science was being applied to African problems. This project both embraced and recommended an interdisciplinary approach to research on Africa that, Tilley argues, underscored the heterogeneity of African environments and the interrelations among the problems being studied. While the aim of British colonialists was unquestionably to transform and modernize Africa, their efforts, Tilley contends, were often unexpectedly subverted by scientific concerns with the local and vernacular. Meticulously researched and gracefully argued, Africa as a Living Laboratory transforms our understanding of imperial history, colonial development, and the role science played in both.
The Nation and Athenæum
Author: The Geographical Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.
Bulletin of the Imperial Institute
Author: Imperial Institute (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The New Statesman
Author: Bulletin of the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Author: British Library of Political and Economic SciencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description