Triumph of the Expert - Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (Hardcover, annotated edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Ohio University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Series in Ecology and History
Release date:	February 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Joseph Morgan Hodge
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	432
Edition:	annotated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8214-1717-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900 > General Books > History > World history > From 1900 > General Promotions
LSN:	0-8214-1717-7
Barcode:	9780821417171

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