Description |
1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : maps |
Series |
African studies ; 140
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African studies series ; 140.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction: the economizing logic of the state -- From colonial economics to political economy, 1820-1940 -- Planning and the territorial perspective, 1945-1951 -- Calculable development, 1951-1954 -- The new finance officials, 1954-1958 -- The nation, in whose name they could act: the military and national income accounting, 1958-1964 -- A nation-state alone cannot transform its destiny, 1964-1966 -- Conclusion: toward a new African economic history -- Bibliography -- Index. |
Summary |
Following the conclusion of the Second World War, the nature of inequality in Africa was dramatically altered. In this book, Alden Young traces the emergence of economic developmentalism as the ideology of the Sudanese state in the decolonization era. Young demonstrates how the state was transformed, as a result of the international circulation of tools of economic management and the practice of economic diplomacy, from the management of a collection of distinct populations, to the management of a national economy based on individual equality. By studying the hope and eventual disillusionment this ideology gave to late colonial officials and then Sudanese politicians and policymakers, Young demonstrates its rise, and also its shortfalls as a political project in Sudan, particularly its inability to deal with questions of regional and racial equity, not only showing how it fostered state formation, but also civil war. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
Economic development -- Sudan -- History -- 20th century.
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Decolonization -- Sudan.
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Sudan -- Economic policy.
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Sudan -- Economic conditions.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- Egypt. |
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Economic policy |
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Economic history |
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Decolonization |
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Economic development |
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Sudan https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJh4qYjT3cck3wrddjRMyd |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
History
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Added Title |
Decolonization, economic development, and state formation |
Other Form: |
Print version: Young, Alden. Transforming Sudan. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018 1107172497 9781107172494 (OCoLC)991641101 |
ISBN |
9781316782019 (electronic bk.) |
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1316782018 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316779071 (electronic bk.) |
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1316779076 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316623848 (paperback) |
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131662384X |
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9781107172494 (hardcover) |
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1107172497 (print) |
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