Cooperative Rule

Community Development in Britain's Late Empire
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-38188-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 274 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 384 g

Reihe: Berkeley Series in British Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Windel, Aaron

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Windel is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.