Triumph of the expert : Agrarian doctrines of development and the legacies of British colonialism /

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 hi...

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Main Author: Hodge, Joseph Morgan, 1965-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007.
Series:Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:xiv, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394) and index.
ISBN:9780821417171
0821417177
9780821417188
0821417185