Triumph of the Expert Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

Name: Triumph of the Expert Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism
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ISBN: 9780821417188

ISBN-10: 0821417185

ISBN-13: 9780821417188

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joseph Morgan Hodge

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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…

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List price: $36.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 2/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Joseph Morgan Hodge is an assistant professor of history at West Virginia University in Morgantown.



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: Expertise, Development, and the State at the Climax of Empire



Setting the Terms of the Debate: Science, the State, and the "New Imperialism"



Developing the "Imperial Estate": Early Patronage and Pessimism for Colonial Scientific Research and Technical Assistance, 1895-1914



Science for Development: The Expansion of Colonial Agricultural Research and Advisory Networks, 1914-35



The "Human Side" of Development: Trusteeship and the Turn to "Native" Health and Education, 1918-35



View from the Field: Rethinking Colonial Agricultural and Medical Knowledge between the Wars, 1920-40



View from Above: The Consolidation of Knowledge and the Reorganization of the Colonial Office, 1935-45



Triumph of the Expert: Development, Environment, and the "Second Colonial Occupation," 1945-60


Conclusion: Postcolonial Consultants, Agrarian Doctrines of Development, and the Legacies of Late Colonialism


Notes


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Index