Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (Ecology & History)

by JamesL.A.Webb (Series Editor), JosephMorganHodge (Author)

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  2007

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  Presents the history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies. This work 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.