Michael A. Havinden, David Meredith

`As a clear and accessible synthesis of wide-ranging material, this book will be a useful introductory text for undergraduates, and a valuable point of reference for specialist in the field.' - Jrnl of Imperial & Commonwealth History`The book provides an excellent summary of recent research as well as supplying insights from new archival material.' - Economic History Review`The statistics are fascinating, the comparisons illuminating, and the whole work has a firm chronological framework which carries the story across the great economic watersheds of the modern colonial century.' - History Today

• 1. Introduction and Framework 2. The Tropical Colonies in the Mid-Victorian Age: Opportunities and Problems 3. Early Development: Theory and the Spread of Empire 4. The Colonial `Scramble' and Joseph Chamberlain's Development Plans, 1885-1903 5. First Fruits: Colonial Development, 1903-1914 6. The Impact of the First World War and its Aftermath 7.The Economics of Trusteeship: Colonial Development Policy 1921-1929 8. Depression and Disillusion: the Colonial Economies in the 1930s 9. The `Colonial Question' and towards Colonial Reform, 1930-1940 10. A New Sense of Urgency: Planning for Colonial Economic Development during and after the Second World War, 1940-1948 11. An Impossible Task? Problems of Financing Colonial Economic and Social Development, 1946-1960 12. The Triumph of the Chamberlain View: New Directions in Colonial Economic Development after the Second Wrold War 13. `Developing the Great Estate': the Legacy of Colonialism and Development