
Cooperative Rule
Community Development in Britain's Late Empire
Aaron Windel(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 30. November 2021
Book
Hardback
274 pages
978-0-520-38187-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"An electric account of the cooperative movement's role in rural modernization. . . .an ambitious and clear-headed. . . .contribution to these literatures and to courses on colonial development, anti-colonial politics, and late imperial history." * H-Soz-Kult * "[An] original book." * Contemporary British History *More details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
7 b-w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-38187-2 (9780520381872)
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E-Book
11/2021
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€34.49
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Person
Aaron Windel is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.
Content
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
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