Imperialism and Development: The East African Groundnut Scheme and Its Legacy Contributor(s): Westcott, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1847012590 ISBN-13: 9781847012593 Publisher: James Currey OUR PRICE: $109.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - East - Social Science | Developing & Emerging Countries - Political Science | Imperialism |
Dewey: 338.967 |
LCCN: 2020288862 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.20 lbs) 260 pages |
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Publisher Description: As colonial development took off after the Second World War, in the context of national food shortages, Britain's Labour Government initiated the Groundnut Scheme, an extraordinarily ambitious project to convert 3 million acres of bush in Tanganyika into the largest mechanized groundnut farm in the world. It was to prove the largest, most expensive and most disastrous development scheme ever undertaken by the British Government. Never previously analysed in depth, the author draws on a wide range of sources to discuss the political dynamics that drove the Groundnut Scheme forward, despite the gravest doubts of agriculturalists and economists, why it went wrong, and what its impact has been since on the practice of economic development. |