Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of figures and tables

pp ix-ix

General editor’s introduction

pp x-x

Contributors

pp xi-xv

Acknowledgements

pp xvi-xvii

List of abbreviations

pp xviii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-34

Part I - Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism

pp 35-36

1 - From dead end to new lease of life: Development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s

pp 37-62

2 - Developing ‘Portuguese Africa’ in late colonialism: confronting discourses

pp 63-86

3 - A history of <italic>maendeleo</italic>: the concept of ‘development’ in Tanganyika’s late colonial public sphere

pp 87-108

Part II - Economic and rural development

pp 109-110

4 - The ‘private’ face of African development planning during the Second World War

pp 111-132

5 - Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia

pp 133-154

6 - Developing rural Africa: Rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944–79

pp 155-178

7 - The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944 – 56

pp 179-204

Part III - Social development and welfare

pp 205-206

8 - From precondition to goal of development: Health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika

pp 207-221

9 - ‘Keystone of progress’ and <italic>mise en valeur d’ensemble</italic>: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period

pp 222-250

10 - Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940–55

pp 251-269

11 - Motherhood, morality, and social order: Gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa

pp 270-292

Part IV - Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development

pp 293-294

12 - The world the Portuguese developed: Racial politics, luso-tropicalism and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism

pp 295-321

13 - The notion of ‘développement’ in French colonial discourses: Changes in discursive practices and their social implications

pp 322-340

14 - Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period

pp 341-366

Epilogue: Taking stock, looking ahead

pp 367-376

Bibliography

pp 377-408

Index

pp 409-414