UID:
edocfu_9959245355002883
Umfang:
1 online resource (433 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-97737-9
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1-134-97738-7
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1-280-32654-9
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0-203-32906-6
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0-203-19183-8
Inhalt:
British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues. This study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies provides detailed analyses of trade and policy. The considerations of past successes and failures elucidate current opportunities and developments. No other book covers this broad topic with such detail and clarity.
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Map of Great Britain and its tropical colonies; Introduction and framework; The tropical colonies in the mid-Victorian age (1850-70): opportunities and problems; Early development theory and the spread of empire, 1870-85; The colonial 'scramble' and Joseph Chamberlain's development plans, 1885-1903; First fruits: colonial development, 1903-14; The impact of the First World War and its aftermath; The economics of 'trusteeship': colonial development policy 1921-29
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Depression and disillusion: the colonial economies in the 1930's The 'colonial question' and towards colonial reform, 1930-40; A new sense of urgency: planning for colonial development during and after the Second World War, 1940 8; An impossible task? Problems of financing colonial economic and social development, 1946-60; The triumph of the Chamberlain view: new directions in colonial economic development after the Second World War; Developing the 'great estate': the legacies of colonialism and development; Appendixes; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-12308-9
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-415-02043-3
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203191835
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