| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 402 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Ohio University Press series in ecology and history
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Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-394) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : Expertise, development, and the state at the climax of empire -- 1. Setting the terms of the debate : science, the state, and the "new imperialism" -- 2. Developing the "imperial estate" : early patronage and pessimism for colonial scientific research and technical assistance, 1895-1914 -- 3. Science for development : the expansion of colonial agricultural research and advisory networks, 1914-35 -- 4. The "human side" of development : trusteeship and the turn to "native" health and education, 1918-35 -- 5. View from the field : rethinking colonial agricultural and medical knowledge between the wars, 1920-40 -- 6. View from above : the consolidation of knowledge and the reorganization of the colonial office, 1935-45 -- 7. Triumph of the expert : development, environment, and the "second colonial occupation," 1945-60 -- Conclusion : Postcolonial consultants, agrarian doctrines of development, and the legacies of late colonialism. |
| 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 str. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Agriculture and state -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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Agriculture and state. |
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Great Britain. |
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Colonies. |
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History. |
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Rural development -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- History.
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Rural development. |
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Imperialism and science.
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Imperialism and science. |
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hodge, Joseph Morgan, 1965- Triumph of the expert. Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2006101505 |
| ISBN |
9780821442265 (electronic book) |
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0821442260 (electronic book) |
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9780821417171 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0821417177 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780821417188 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0821417185 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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