Cooperative Rule

Community Development in Britain's Late Empire

Aaron Windel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

274 Seiten

2021
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38188-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2022
Reihe/Serie	Berkeley Series in British Studies ; 20
Zusatzinfo	7 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-38188-2 / 0520381882
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38188-9 / 9780520381889
Zustand	Neuware