Cooperative Rule (eBook)

Community Development in Britain's Late Empire

Aaron Windel (Autor)

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2021
274 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38189-6 (ISBN)

Infos

While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in British rule in India at the end of the nineteenth century. Officials and experts saw cooperation as a unique solution to the problems of late colonialism, one able to both improve economic conditions and defuse anticolonial politics by allowing community uplift among the empire's primarily rural inhabitants. A truly transcolonial history, this ambitious book examines the career of cooperation from South Asia to Eastern and Central Africa and finally to Britain. In tracing this history, Aaron Windel opens the door for a reconsideration of how the colonial uses of cooperation and community development influenced the reimagination of community in Europe and America from the 1960s onward.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 

1. Cooperative Rule 
2. Pedagogies of Community Development 
3. Anti-empire, Development, and Emergency Rule 
4. Uganda’s Anti-colonial Cooperative Movement 
5. Cooperatives and Decolonization in Postwar Britain 

Conclusion 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38189-0 / 0520381890
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38189-6 / 9780520381896