‘The Chance to Send Their First Class Men Out to the Colonies’
The Making of the Colonial Research Service
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20046262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sabine Clarke (0000-0001-6268-8830, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 187-208 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Science and Empire (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230320826_9 |
| OpenAlex | W2499900477 |
| ISBN | 9780230320826 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
Perhaps the most obvious rejoinder to the suggestion that the period after the Second World War can be seen as the gradual winding down of the British colonial empire is the fact that the number of individuals employed in the colonial services reached their peak in 1954, with a total of 18,000 officers (from 8,000 in 1938).1 The growth of the colonial services in the postwar period was driven by substantial expansion in specialist and professional roles including teachers, policemen, lawyers and engineers. Many of these officers had been employed to execute and manage development schemes funded through the Colonial Development and Welfare Acts of the 1940s and 1950s. The first of these in 1940 marked a shift in policy by the Colonial Office in London towards a more interventionist and planned form of development for the British colonies. This reform was prompted in part by the need to restore the credibility of British imperial rule in the face of colonial unrest and international and domestic criticism of the failure of previous development initiatives by Britain. It was hoped that the full extent of British altruism would be demonstrated by replacing loans to the Colonies by free grants and emphasis was placed on the need for development projects of social value along with schemes intended to increase economic prosperity.2KeywordsTechnical ServicePension SchemeBritish ColonialGold CoastColonial GovernmentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves
British Empire · Colonialism · Credibility · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Prosperity · Sociology · Unrest · African history and culture studies · Australian History and Society · History · Law
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| Citations per year | 0.44 |
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| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |