Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

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

Hodge, Joseph Morgan

Hardcover

Series: Ecology & History

AgricultureEnvironmental StudiesSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0821417177
ISBN13: 9780821417171
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Feb 15 2007
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.26 Width: 6.43 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

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.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

Southeast Asian History

View All