By M. Havinden
British colonial rule of the tropics is the severe heritage to modern improvement matters. This research of Britain's monetary and political courting with its tropical colonies presents targeted analyses of exchange and coverage. The concerns of previous successes and screw ups elucidate present possibilities and advancements. No different ebook covers this vast subject with such element and readability.
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18 This was 21 COLONIALISM AND DEVELOPMENT often reflected in a naive or confused attitude to the agricultural and trading systems in being at the commencement of colonial rule. There were two aspects to this. There was a danger that where local agricultural systems were based on shifting cultivation, British officials would regard this as wasteful and inefficient and would seek to impose permanent cultivation, based perhaps on some ideas derived from the English ‘agricultural revolution’, without realising the importance of shifting cultivation in maintaining soil fertility and preventing erosion.
The initial cost of the trees (cocoa not being found indigenously in Ghana) must have been trivial, yet within a few years this tiny investment (of the 1890s) had led to the growth of million of trees and the development of a massive world-wide trade in cocoa beans. 15 However in this area the development prospects were certainly more latent than actual; except in the case of railways, which were introduced fairly rapidly in the two decades before 1914, even if still on a restricted scale. It is obvious from the previous discussion that the conditions for a fairly rapid (even if still very unbalanced) economic expansion existed for the tropical colonies, on the basis of export staples, whether agricultural or mineral, in the period when the overseas demand for such staples was still growing rapidly, as it was up until the late 1920s; and when the tropical colonies themselves could derive the maximum benefit from the relatively minimal input of infrastructure.
The tourist must take his 30 THE TROPICAL COLONIES IN THE MID-VICTORIAN AGE own provisions, unless, indeed, he provided himself by means of his gun, and must also take his bed. 18 He had also been repairing decayed bridges and had taken precautions lest the ‘fearful scourge’ of cholera should spread to the island from Jamaica: A sanitary inspector has been appointed, who is in constant communication with the police, in order to enforce the laws bearing on the subject. 19 Perhaps not surprisingly he had been able to do little about education and reported that I am sorry that I am not able to give a very satisfactory account of the general progress of education, the scarcity of efficient teachers being the principal impediment, and which must continue until a good normal school be established.