1930s and Dev and Partnership Flashcards
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Pre WW2 Development policy
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- 1925 East African loan
- 1929 Colonial Development Act, neo-mercantalist
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WW2 and post-ww2 development policy
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- 1940 CD&W Act, provided £1mil a year for expenditure on economic dev projects
- 1943 Asquith commission examining higher education in colonies
- 1945 CD&W act, funds increased to £120mil over 10 years
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Historiography pre WW2
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- Darwin argues that the turn to ‘partnership’ and development was an ideological revolt against old approach to imperial power
- Contemporary Historian W.K. Hancock argues that interwar period too focussed on past and not on generating new policies
- Contemporary historian W.M. Macmillan argues 1940 CD&W act as a seismic change
- Stockwell and Ashton argue that the laissez-faire approach to colonial affairs had been unraveling since end of WW1
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Primary Sources
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- 1942, Margery Perham article ‘Capital, Labour and the Colour Bar’, in the Times (‘tropical East Ends’)
- Macmillan 1942 speech to commons emphasizing ‘partnership’
- 1943, Contemporary Historian W.K. Hancock’s argument of empire, that due to war colonial policy has to be progressive
- Oliver Stanley speech to commons 1943, emphasizing ‘parnership’
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Pre WW2 revolts/protests in colonies
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- 1935 copper mine strikes in Northern Rhodesia
- Gold Coast and Nigeria cocoa strikes 1937-8
- Palestinian uprisings in 1938
- West Indies strikes 1934-9
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Critics and papers on reform
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- 1936 W.M. Macmillan warning from the West Indies
- Lord Moyne West Indies Royal Comission, 1939 (not published till 1945)
- Lord Hailey’s 1938 African Survey
- Margery Perham’s article
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Historiography WW2 and after
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- John Darwin argues that turn to Africa post-WW2 was a ‘second colonial occupation’
- Robert Pearce stressed the hypocritical fight against the Nazis while maintaining empire
- Joseph Hodge argues that post-WW2 dev programmes failed leading to rising nationalism
