Cooperative Rule

Community Development in Britain's Late Empire

Aaron Windel

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University of California Press
30 November 2021

History

Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies

While many have interpreted the cooperative movement as propagating a radical alternative to capitalism, Cooperative Rule shows that in the late British Empire, cooperation became an important part of the armory of colonialism. The system was rooted in British rule in India at the end of the nineteenth century. Officials and experts saw cooperation as a unique solution to the problems of late colonialism, one able to both improve economic conditions and defuse anticolonial politics by allowing community uplift among the empire's primarily rural inhabitants. A truly transcolonial history, this ambitious book traces the career of cooperation from South Asia to Eastern and Central Africa and finally to Britain. In tracing this history, Windel opens the doors for a reconsideration of how the colonial career of cooperation and community development influenced the reimagination of community in Europe and America from the 1960s onward.

By: Aaron Windel
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 20
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9780520381889
ISBN 10: 0520381882
Series: Berkeley Series in British Studies
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Cooperative Rule 2. Pedagogies of Community Development 3. Anti-empire, Development, and Emergency Rule 4. Uganda’s Anti-colonial Cooperative Movement 5. Cooperatives and Decolonization in Postwar Britain Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Aaron Windel is Associate Professor of History at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews for Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain's Late Empire

An electric account of the cooperative movement's role in rural modernization. . . .an ambitious and clear-headed. . . .contribution to these literatures and to courses on colonial development, anti-colonial politics, and late imperial history. * H-Soz-Kult *