Developing Africa :  concepts and practices in twentieth-century colonialism / 
edited by Joseph M. Hodge, Gerald Hödl, and Martina Kopf. 
 - Manchester, UK :  Manchester University Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource (xviii, 414 pages) :  illustrations 
 - Studies in imperialism .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism. From dead end to new lease of life : development in south-eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s /  Economic and rural development. The 'private' face of African development planning during the Second World War /  Social development and welfare. From precondition to goal of development : health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika /  Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development. The world the Portuguese developed : racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism /  Epilogue : taking stock, looking ahead /  Juhani Koponen ; Developing 'Portuguese Africa' in late colonialism : confronting discourses /  Cláudia Castelo ; A history of maendeleo : the concept of 'development' in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere /  Emma Hunter --  Billy Frank ; Ecological concepts of development? : the case of colonial Zambia /  Sven Speek ; Developming rural Africa : rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944-79 /  E. Kushinga Makombe ; The tractor as a tool of development? : the mythologies and legacies of mechanissed tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944-56 /  Celine Pessis --  Walter Bruchhausen ; 'Keystone of progress' and mise en valeur d'ensemble : British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period /  Walter Schicho ; Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940-55 /  Uyilawa Usuanlele ; Motherhood, morality, and social order : gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa /  Barbara Bush --  Caio Simões de Araújo and Iolande Vasile ; The notion of 'developpement' in French colonial discourses : changes indiscursive practices and their solcial implications /  Françoise Dufour ; Developing Africa in the colonial imageination : European and African narrative writing of the interwar period /  Martina Kopf --  Joseph M. Hodge. 
<br/><br/> 'Developing Africa' investigates development in British, French and Portuguese colonial Africa during the last decades of colonial rule. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781526110879 9781781706824 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development--History--Africa--20th century.<br/>Colonies--History--Africa--20th century.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT29  / .D484 2014