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The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900–1963

By Paul Mosley

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9780511759895, 9780521243391, 9780521102452
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511759895
Google Books ID
2u34PAAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3624766 bytes)
Series
African Studies 35
Edition
First Edition
Pages
303\303
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The economic history of developing countries, particularly the former colonies, has become polarized between two ideologies. The apologists for colonialism have emphasized the stimulus given to the indigenous economy by the introduction of foreign capital; the 'underdevelopment theorists' have turned this interpretation on its head and represented the relationship as being, particularly in 'settler colonies' such as Kenya and Zimbabwe, one not of stimulus but of rape and plunder. In this study, Dr Mosley considers the economies of colonial Kenya and Southern Rhodesia and argues, in the light of recently assembled statistical data, that the truth is more complex than either of these simple interpretations allows. At the level of policy, most white producers acknowledged that they could not afford to let 'white mate black in a very few moves': they needed his cheap labour, cattle and maize too much to wish to damage seriously the peasant economy that sustained them.

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