Triumph of the Expert
Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9297654 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joseph Morgan Hodge |
| Year | 2007 |
| Pages | 402 |
| Publication date | 2007-03-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Triumph of the expert (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Ohio University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/j.ctt1j7x6pk |
| OpenAlex | W567669474 |
| ISBN | 9780821442265 |
| Open Library | OL15610783M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 131 |
The most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire. Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period. Joseph Morgan Hodge examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire. Hodge looks intently at the structural constraints, bureaucratic fissures, and contradictory imperatives that beset and ultimately overwhelmed the late colonial development mission in sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Caribbean. Triumph of the Expert seeks to understand the quandaries that led up to the important transformation in British imperial thought and practice and the intellectual and administrative legacies it left behind
Agrarian society · Agriculture · Archaeology · British Empire · Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Doctrine · Economic history · Empire · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Australian History and Society · History · Law · 338.1/809171241 · Agriculture and state · Colonies · Economic policy · Great britain · Hc259 .h63 2007 · Imperialism and science · Rural development · Science and state
Politics of Poverty
Introduction
The Reconfiguration of Scientific Career Networks in the Late Colonial Period
The ‘Know-How of the World is Mainly with Private Companies’
Where Imperialism Could Not Reach
“An island of the Third World”? Decolonization, solidarity and the critique of development during the long Sixties at the Institut Africain de Genève
Expertise économique et reconfigurations disciplinaires dans la décolonisation
Histories of Technology and the Environment in Post/Colonial Africa
“A Vast Publicity Exercise”
Natural born merchants. The Hudson Bay Company, science and Canada’s final fur frontiers (1925–1931)
Ecologizing regions; securing food
Nkrumah’s Baby”
The politics of rinderpest control on the Kenya–Tanganyika border, c. 1920–1940
Neo-Malthusianism and development
Managing the world
Agriculture, American expertise, and the quest for global data
The transfer of European social policy concepts to tropical Africa, 1900–50
How to win friends and influence nations
Women's International Thought and the New Professions, 1900–1940
International development in Africa
Britain, West Africa and ‘The new nuclear imperialism
Global Britain and the Post-colonial World
Beveridge’s rival
Climate as resource and challenge
Insect Safari
Food as a weapon? The geopolitics of food and the Qatar–Gulf rift
Better housing conditions are of vital importance to the ordinary man’
Suitable lodgings for students’
Stability in Numbers
The Cross versus the Crescent
O projecto-piloto de extensão rural do Andulo (Angola)
Organizações internacionais na era da descolonização
Ecologies of Development
The Angolan Experiment’
The Architects of Integration
Environmentalism, Development and British Policy in the Middle East 1945–65
Imperial Liberalism and Institution Building at the End of Empire in Africa
Imperial Legacies and Internationalist Discourses
A Technocratic Vision of Empire
The Purposes of Land Settlement in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, 1898–1914
Emigration, War and Reconstruction
Scientific Salvation’ and Development
Official British Aid Policy, External Economic Relations, and Development, 1947-1974
Decolonisation and Environmentalism
Science as national belonging
Multi-ethnic societies in transition to independence
A Piecemeal Avalanche
How and Why Does History Matter for Development Policy
Food Comes First”
Imperial cooperative experiments and global market capitalism, c .1900– c .1960
Colonialism and the African Environment
Coercion and Resistance in the Colonial Market
Unexploited Assets
Becoming a Good Farmer—Becoming a Good Farm Worker
Twentieth-Century South Africa
Many Mouths
The village as Cold War site
Promoting a multilateral ‘revolution’ in rural development
Modelos de modernización para el desarrollismo
Controlling Development
Neo-Colonialism Reconsidered
Imagining an Imperial Modernity
What "Development" Does to Work
Making MalagasyZebu
Reading Rostow in a Rhodesian Prison
A pragmatic high modernism? rural development and state building in the Ethiopian lowlands, c. 1960–2019
‘The old order changeth yielding place to new’
“Scientific independence”, capacity building, and the development of Unesco’s science and technology agenda for Africa
Laboratorios de cambio agrario
It is All He Can Do to Cope with the Roads in His Own District”
We Hold It in Trust”
The Women of Kenya Speak
Whatever Community Is, This Is Not It”
Streams of knowledge
Mutant rice and agricultural modernization in Asia
Development interventions
How the United States learned to commodify the transnational atom
The search for new models for organizing regional agricultural research in the post-colonial era
Agricultural expertise, race, and economic development
South-South Cooperation in Africa
The bureaucratic performance of development in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania
Generalizations in Global History
Histories of Empire and Environmental Legacies in Africa
This Was Being Done Only to Help”
Through the Prism of Community Development
Understanding the motivations and roles of national development experts in Ghana
A pretty kettle of fish’
Educating multicultural citizens
Frontier Security in North East Africa
Just Like in Colonial Times? Administrative Practice and Local Reflections on ‘Grassroots Neocolonialism’ in Autonomous and Postcolonial Dahomey, 1958–65
Cattle Dip and Shark Liver Oil in a Techno-Chemical Colonial State
Distant Shores
A Politics of Care
Race, biopolitics and liberal development from the Jim Crow South to postwar Africa
Race, debt and empire
The Triumph of the State
Lost and Found Crops
How African Decolonization Challenged the Notion of Cold War Polarity
The Formative Years of Atomic Agriculture in Pakistan in a Long-Term Perspective
How to Feed an Empire
| Citations per year | 2.34 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1970 - 2026 (57) |
| Highly cited | Yes |