Development Studies and Colonial Policy

Dr Barbara Ingham is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Salford, and Director of the University’s Centre for Development Studies. Dr Colin Simmons is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Salford, with special interests in Third World history, and the economic history of India.

• Notes on Contributors, Preface, PART ONE, 1. Economic Development and Economic History, 2. ‘Economic Development’: A Suitable Case for Treatment?, PART TWO, 3. Colonialism and Peripheral Development, 4. British Export Interests in Bengal and Imperial Expansion into South-east Asia, 1780 to 1824: The Origins of the Straits Settlements, 5. Tribesmen, Government and Political Economy on the North-West Frontier, 6. Colonial Education Policy and Manpower Underdevelopment in British Malaya, 7. The East African Sisal Industry, 1929–49: The Marketing of a Colonial Commodity during Depression and War, 8. Colonialism and the Economy of the Gold Coast 1919–45, 9. The Colonial Economy: Nigeria and the Second World War