Transforming Sudan

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-316-62384-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 140, 195 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 293 g

Reihe: African Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Alden

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: the economizing logic of the state; 1. From colonial economics to political economy 1820–1940; 2. Planning and the territorial perspective, 1945 until 1951; 3. Calculable development, 1951 to 1954; 4. The new finance officials; 5. The nation, in whose name they could act: the military and national income accounting; 6. A nation-state alone cannot transform its destiny; Conclusion: towards a new African economic history; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Young, Alden
Alden Young is an Assistant Professor of African History and the Director of the Program in Africana Studies at Drexel University, Philadelphia. He was previously a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Africana Studies Department at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Ph.D. in History from Princeton University, New Jersey.