Uncertain Dimensions: Western Overseas Empires in the Twentieth CenturyU of Minnesota Press, 1985 - 263 ページ Uncertain Dimensions was first published in 1985. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. World War I battered the Western imperial systems and destroyed one, that of Germany, but it did not sound the death knell of an empire. The "scramble" for overseas territory ha reached a virtual conclusion shortly before the war; afterwards, the main business of empire was to ensure a pax colonia: the often contradictory goals of a stable government and economic development. It is with the years between world wars—the brief age of administrative empire — that Raymond Betts is chiefly concerned in this book. An unsettled time, when individuals coped with empire of uncertain dimensions, the interwar years nonetheless left a material legacy—railroads, motor roads, public buildings — and an ideological one—the voices of protest that led to independence after World War II. Preeminently a cultural history of the era rather than a political narrative, Uncertain Dimensions centers upon the regions we now call the Third World—Subsaharan Africa and Southeast Asia—and the major colonial powers, Great Britain and France. Betts has structured this book as a group of closely linked interpretive essays, each devoted to a specific aspect of the late colonial experience: World War I and the postwar mandates, colonial administration, the European economic imperative and "technology transfer," urbanization, anti-imperial protest, and decolonization. Throughout, he draws upon the work of novelists, poets, and theoreticians—Aime Cesaire, Claude McKay, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Frantz Fanon, and many others—and recognizes the deep irony at the heart of modern imperialism: that contact between Western and Third worlds was mostly confined to two minorities, the alien European and the socially uprooted African or Asian. |
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... Colonial Rule and Administration 47 Chapter 3 Imperial Designs : Technology and Economic Development 76 Chapter 4 Colonial Cities 114 Chapter 5 Voices of Protest 147 Chapter 6 The End of Empire 178 Aftermath 211 Bibliographical Note 221 ...
... colonial administrations with obli- gations to the League of Nations amassed statistics and undertook surveys that appeared in voluminous reports , all of which were designed to make colonization a scientific and rational undertaking ...
... colonial rule . Despite the traditional imperialist rhetoric that they used to defend their act , the Americans were ... colonial government there : it established civil rule , provided the Filipino people with certain rights and ...
... colonial rule and new problems resulting from sophisticated forms of political protest , the major imperialist concern or preoccupation was twofold : stable government and economic development . The brief age of administrative em- pire ...
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