Developing Africa : concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism

Developing Africa : concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism / edited by Joseph M. Hodge, Gerald Hödl, and Martina Kopf.

'Developing Africa' investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule.

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Other Authors: Hodge, Joseph Morgan, 1965- (Editor), Hödl, Gerald, 1965- (Editor), Kopf, Martina (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, [2014]
Series:Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
Subjects:
Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
Economic development > Africa > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
France > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
Portugal > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism. From dead end to new lease of life : development in south-eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s / Juhani Koponen ; Developing 'Portuguese Africa' in late colonialism : confronting discourses / Cláudia Castelo ; A history of maendeleo : the concept of 'development' in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere / Emma Hunter
  • Economic and rural development. The 'private' face of African development planning during the Second World War / Billy Frank ; Ecological concepts of development? : the case of colonial Zambia / Sven Speek ; Developming rural Africa : rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944-79 / E. Kushinga Makombe ; The tractor as a tool of development? : the mythologies and legacies of mechanissed tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944-56 / Céline Pessis
  • Social development and welfare. From precondition to goal of development : health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika / Walter Bruchhausen ; 'Keystone of progress' and mise en valeur d'ensemble : British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period / Walter Schicho ; Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940-55 / Uyilawa Usuanlele ; Motherhood, morality, and social order : gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa / Barbara Bush
  • Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development. The world the Portuguese developed : racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism / Caio Simões de Araújo and Iolande Vasile ; The notion of 'développement' in French colonial discourses : changes indiscursive practices and their solcial implications / Françoise Dufour ; Developing Africa in the colonial imageination : European and African narrative writing of the interwar period / Martina Kopf
  • Epilogue : taking stock, looking ahead / Joseph M. Hodge.

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