ABSTRACT
British colonial rule of the tropics is the critical background to contemporary development issues. This study of Britain's economic and political relationship with its tropical colonies provides detailed analyses of trade and policy. The considerations of past successes and failures elucidate current opportunities and developments. No other book covers this broad topic with such detail and clarity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|21 pages
The tropical colonies in the mid-Victorian age (1850—70)
Opportunities and problems
chapter 10|29 pages
A new sense of urgency
Planning for colonial development during and after the Second World War, 1940—8
chapter 11|41 pages
An impossible task?
Problems of financing colonial economic and social development, 1946–60
chapter 12|23 pages
The triumph of the Chamberlain view
New directions in colonial economic development after the Second World War
