Developing Africa : Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism /: Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism. (2016)
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- Title:
- Developing Africa : Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism /: Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism. (2016)
- Main Title:
- Developing Africa : Concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism
- Further Information:
- Note: Joseph Hodge, Gerald Hodl, Martina Kopf.
- Editors:
- Hodge, Joseph
Hodl, Gerald
Kopf, Martina - Contents:
- General editor’s introduction; Introduction – Joseph Hodge and Gerald Hödl; PART I: Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism; 1. From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s – Juhani Koponen; 2. Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses – Cláudia Castelo; 3. A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika’s late colonial public sphere – Emma Hunter; PART II: Economic and rural development; 4. The ‘private’face of African development planning during the Second World War – Billy Frank; 5. Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia – Sven Speek; 6. Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79 – E.Kushinga Makombe; 7. The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944–56 – Céline Pessis; PART III: Social development and welfare; 8. From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika – Walter Bruchhausen; 9. ‘Keystone of progress’ and mise en valeur d’ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period – Walter Schicho; 10. Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55 – Uyilawa Usuanlele; 11. Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonialGeneral editor’s introduction; Introduction – Joseph Hodge and Gerald Hödl; PART I: Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism; 1. From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s – Juhani Koponen; 2. Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses – Cláudia Castelo; 3. A history of maendeleo: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika’s late colonial public sphere – Emma Hunter; PART II: Economic and rural development; 4. The ‘private’face of African development planning during the Second World War – Billy Frank; 5. Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia – Sven Speek; 6. Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79 – E.Kushinga Makombe; 7. The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944–56 – Céline Pessis; PART III: Social development and welfare; 8. From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika – Walter Bruchhausen; 9. ‘Keystone of progress’ and mise en valeur d’ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period – Walter Schicho; 10. Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55 – Uyilawa Usuanlele; 11. Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa – Barbara Bush; PART IV: Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development; 12. The world the Portuguese developed: racial politics, Luso-tropicalism, and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism – Caio Simões de Araújoand Iolanda Vasile; 13. Notions of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications – Françoise Dufour; 14. Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period – Martina Kopf; Epilogue: taking stock, looking ahead – Joseph Hodge; Bibliography; Index … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2016
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (432 pages)
- Subjects:
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism
African History - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781526110862
1526110865 - Access Rights:
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