L J Butler
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L J Butler |
| GIVEN NAMES | L J |
| FAMILY NAME | Butler |
| SIGNATURE | BUTLER L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bedfordshire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Crises of Empire
Crises of Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquely comparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, French and Dutch empires. By comparing the processes of decolonization across three of the major modern empires, from the aftermath of the First World War to the late 20th century, the authors are able to analyse decolonization as a long-term process. They explore significant changes to the international system, shifting popu…
The wind of change
Jennifer L. Foray. Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands
The last phase of Dutch colonialism has suffered undue historiographical neglect. This very welcome book represents a major step towards rectifying this anomaly. Jennifer L. Foray has produced an engaging, stimulating, and ultimately convincing study, based on careful and exhaustive research, which amply reinforces and develops existing interpretations of the corrosive influence of war on European colonialism, while clarifying the metropolitan un…
Industrialisation and the British Colonial State
Taking colonial policy towards West Africa as a case study, Butler shows that, during the 1940s, the Colonial Office evolved a policy of encouraging colonial industry as part of a broad programme of development intended to prepare colonies for independence
The Central African Federation and Britain's Post-War Nuclear Programme
This article examines the possible connection between the British nuclear programme and London's plans in the early 1950s to create a federation of British territories in central Africa. It argues that fears about losing assured access to a continuing supply of the uranium it needed for its civil and military nuclear programmes, largely the result of competition from the United States and unsatisfactory arrangements with Commonwealth countries, i…
The Colonial State and the Development of the Copperbelt Origins
While copper has been produced in what became Northern Rhodesia for at least a millennium, the origins of modern mining in the territory date from the turn of the twentieth century. Until the 1920s, development was fitful and speculative. Prospects were initially unpromising, especially when compared with those of neighbouring Katanga. 1 Investors were deterred by the absence of railway links to the coast, making transport of ore expensive. 2 Exp…
Conclusion
The development of copper mining in Northern Rhodesia during the colonial period offers opportunities to test some of the key historiographical issues to emerge in recent studies of relations between business and the late colonial state. The importance of the Copperbelt to the British economy, and, indeed to the wider Sterling Area, between the early 1930s and at least the early 1950s seems clear. Perhaps one of the least contentious statements a…
The Mining Industry and Zambian Independence
The rapidly changing political climate within the Federation after 1959 obliged the mining industry to consider its position in the light of Northern Rhodesia’s likely achievement of independence. Given their past differences over matters such as African advancement and measures to regulate production, their different controlling interests and their distinctive styles of business leadership, it was always possible that the groups’ responses to th…
Wartime Mobilisation
The Second World War, and the economic problems which it produced, led to a sustained attempt by Britain to achieve imperial economic integration. The war provided an unprecedented stimulus to mineral development in colonial Africa. The demands of total war required parallel efforts to maximise the production of African minerals. In this sense, Britain’s African colonies amply fulfilled the criterion of being indispensable to the wartime British …
Postscript Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining
The years immediately before independence saw continued expansion on the Copperbelt. By 1963, Mufulira had established itself as the second largest underground copper mine in the world, and the Chambishi ore body was due to be developed. 1 Production, which had been cut back during 1963, was running at record levels by the time of independence. 2 Assessing the outlook for the Copperbelt, Britain’s Trade Commissioner in Salisbury noted that the ma…
The Debate on Controlling the Mining Industry (1939–1952)
Arguably, the wartime transition from virtually unrestricted laissez faire to government intervention was particularly difficult in Northern Rhodesia’s case, where the mining firms had previously enjoyed considerable latitude in managing their affairs without reference to the colonial state. 1 Contacts between business and state inevitably became more frequent. These were sometimes of a personal, semi-formal character. For instance, when Ronald P…
The Post-War Commodity Boom (1946–1953)
After 1945, nearly all colonial exports were in greater demand than ever before, and copper was no exception. 1 Contrary to expectations, the wartime demand for copper and other minerals persisted after 1945, and the anticipated post-war surpluses of commodities proved illusory. By spring 1946, the mining companies were gripped by a new optimism, and were planning for expansion in the belief that current demand would persist for another four to f…
The Demise of the Federation
The collapse in the post-war boom in copper prices had consequences felt for the remainder of the colonial period in Northern Rhodesia. During 1958, the price of copper levelled out at £160 per ton, less than half the recent record figures. 1 While the Northern Rhodesian government was preoccupied with the impact of falling copper prices on future African incomes, 2 two responses by the mining companies were possible: cuts in production, and cuts…
Business and British Decolonisation
One of the most intractable challenges to emerge during British decolonisation was the need to reconcile the competing political aspirations of settler and African populations in Central Africa. During the 1950s Britain sought to construct a ‘multiracial’ Central African Federation, financed largely by Northern Rhodesia's copper industry. Of the two major mining groups involved, the Rhodesian Selection Trust, under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald …
Copper Empire
This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassin
Britain, the united states, and the demise of the central African federation, 1959–63
(2000). Britain, the united states, and the demise of the central African federation, 1959–63. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat, pp. 131-151
Reconstruction, development and the entrepreneurial state
The British colonial state was transformed during the Second World War, and adopted a new commitment to economic and social development funded by the United Kingdom. Designed to pre‐empt international and colonial criticism of colonial rule, this policy was affected by wartime debates within Britain on post‐war social and economic reconstruction. Wartime collectivist ideas were selectively adopted into Colonial Office thinking and justified as a …
Copper Empire
This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassin
Business and British Decolonisation
One of the most intractable challenges to emerge during British decolonisation was the need to reconcile the competing political aspirations of settler and African populations in Central Africa. During the 1950s Britain sought to construct a ‘multiracial’ Central African Federation, financed largely by Northern Rhodesia's copper industry. Of the two major mining groups involved, the Rhodesian Selection Trust, under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald …
Britain, the united states, and the demise of the central African federation, 1959–63
(2000). Britain, the united states, and the demise of the central African federation, 1959–63. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat, pp. 131-151
Reconstruction, development and the entrepreneurial state
The British colonial state was transformed during the Second World War, and adopted a new commitment to economic and social development funded by the United Kingdom. Designed to pre‐empt international and colonial criticism of colonial rule, this policy was affected by wartime debates within Britain on post‐war social and economic reconstruction. Wartime collectivist ideas were selectively adopted into Colonial Office thinking and justified as a …
Reconstruction, development and the entrepreneurial state
The British colonial state was transformed during the Second World War, and adopted a new commitment to economic and social development funded by the United Kingdom. Designed to pre‐empt international and colonial criticism of colonial rule, this policy was affected by wartime debates within Britain on post‐war social and economic reconstruction. Wartime collectivist ideas were selectively adopted into Colonial Office thinking and justified as a …
Britain, the united states, and the demise of the central African federation, 1959–63
(2000). Britain, the united states, and the demise of the central African federation, 1959–63. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 28, International Diplomacy and Colonial Retreat, pp. 131-151
The Colonial State and the Development of the Copperbelt Origins
While copper has been produced in what became Northern Rhodesia for at least a millennium, the origins of modern mining in the territory date from the turn of the twentieth century. Until the 1920s, development was fitful and speculative. Prospects were initially unpromising, especially when compared with those of neighbouring Katanga. 1 Investors were deterred by the absence of railway links to the coast, making transport of ore expensive. 2 Exp…
Conclusion
The development of copper mining in Northern Rhodesia during the colonial period offers opportunities to test some of the key historiographical issues to emerge in recent studies of relations between business and the late colonial state. The importance of the Copperbelt to the British economy, and, indeed to the wider Sterling Area, between the early 1930s and at least the early 1950s seems clear. Perhaps one of the least contentious statements a…
The Mining Industry and Zambian Independence
The rapidly changing political climate within the Federation after 1959 obliged the mining industry to consider its position in the light of Northern Rhodesia’s likely achievement of independence. Given their past differences over matters such as African advancement and measures to regulate production, their different controlling interests and their distinctive styles of business leadership, it was always possible that the groups’ responses to th…
Wartime Mobilisation
The Second World War, and the economic problems which it produced, led to a sustained attempt by Britain to achieve imperial economic integration. The war provided an unprecedented stimulus to mineral development in colonial Africa. The demands of total war required parallel efforts to maximise the production of African minerals. In this sense, Britain’s African colonies amply fulfilled the criterion of being indispensable to the wartime British …
Postscript Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining
The years immediately before independence saw continued expansion on the Copperbelt. By 1963, Mufulira had established itself as the second largest underground copper mine in the world, and the Chambishi ore body was due to be developed. 1 Production, which had been cut back during 1963, was running at record levels by the time of independence. 2 Assessing the outlook for the Copperbelt, Britain’s Trade Commissioner in Salisbury noted that the ma…
The Debate on Controlling the Mining Industry (1939–1952)
Arguably, the wartime transition from virtually unrestricted laissez faire to government intervention was particularly difficult in Northern Rhodesia’s case, where the mining firms had previously enjoyed considerable latitude in managing their affairs without reference to the colonial state. 1 Contacts between business and state inevitably became more frequent. These were sometimes of a personal, semi-formal character. For instance, when Ronald P…
The Post-War Commodity Boom (1946–1953)
After 1945, nearly all colonial exports were in greater demand than ever before, and copper was no exception. 1 Contrary to expectations, the wartime demand for copper and other minerals persisted after 1945, and the anticipated post-war surpluses of commodities proved illusory. By spring 1946, the mining companies were gripped by a new optimism, and were planning for expansion in the belief that current demand would persist for another four to f…
The Demise of the Federation
The collapse in the post-war boom in copper prices had consequences felt for the remainder of the colonial period in Northern Rhodesia. During 1958, the price of copper levelled out at £160 per ton, less than half the recent record figures. 1 While the Northern Rhodesian government was preoccupied with the impact of falling copper prices on future African incomes, 2 two responses by the mining companies were possible: cuts in production, and cuts…
Business and British Decolonisation
One of the most intractable challenges to emerge during British decolonisation was the need to reconcile the competing political aspirations of settler and African populations in Central Africa. During the 1950s Britain sought to construct a ‘multiracial’ Central African Federation, financed largely by Northern Rhodesia's copper industry. Of the two major mining groups involved, the Rhodesian Selection Trust, under the chairmanship of Sir Ronald …
Copper Empire
This is a study of the evolving relationship between the British colonial state and the copper mining industry in Northern Rhodesia, from the early stages of development to decolonization, encompassin
The Central African Federation and Britain's Post-War Nuclear Programme
This article examines the possible connection between the British nuclear programme and London's plans in the early 1950s to create a federation of British territories in central Africa. It argues that fears about losing assured access to a continuing supply of the uranium it needed for its civil and military nuclear programmes, largely the result of competition from the United States and unsatisfactory arrangements with Commonwealth countries, i…
Industrialisation and the British Colonial State
Taking colonial policy towards West Africa as a case study, Butler shows that, during the 1940s, the Colonial Office evolved a policy of encouraging colonial industry as part of a broad programme of development intended to prepare colonies for independence
The wind of change
Jennifer L. Foray. Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands
The last phase of Dutch colonialism has suffered undue historiographical neglect. This very welcome book represents a major step towards rectifying this anomaly. Jennifer L. Foray has produced an engaging, stimulating, and ultimately convincing study, based on careful and exhaustive research, which amply reinforces and develops existing interpretations of the corrosive influence of war on European colonialism, while clarifying the metropolitan un…
Crises of Empire
Crises of Empire offers a comprehensive and uniquely comparative analysis of the history of decolonization in the British, French and Dutch empires. By comparing the processes of decolonization across three of the major modern empires, from the aftermath of the First World War to the late 20th century, the authors are able to analyse decolonization as a long-term process. They explore significant changes to the international system, shifting popu…
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