{"product_id":"triumph-of-the-expert-joseph-morgan-hodge-9780821417188","title":"Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe most striking feature of British colonialism in the twentieth century was the confidence it expressed in the use of science and expertise, especially when joined with the new bureaucratic capacities of the state, to develop natural and human resources of the empire.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriumph of the Expert\u003c\/i\u003e is a history of British colonial doctrine and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period. Joseph Morgan Hodge examines the way that development as a framework of ideas and institutional practices emerged out of the strategic engagement between science and the state at the climax of the British Empire. Hodge looks intently at the structural constraints, bureaucratic fissures, and contradictory imperatives that beset and ultimately overwhelmed the late colonial development mission in sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia, and the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTriumph of the Expert\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to understand the quandaries that led up to the important transformation in British imperial thought and practice and the intellectual and administrative legacies it left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Morgan Hodge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821417185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821417188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.23w x 1.03d","brand":"Joseph Morgan Hodge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44120348754175,"sku":"9780821417188","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f21af81-f3b5-4aad-9e1d-3cce5c5d2bce.jpg?v=1687413842","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/triumph-of-the-expert-joseph-morgan-hodge-9780821417188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}