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| Title: | The settler economies: studies in the economic history of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1963 |
| Author: | Mosley, Paul |
| Year: | 1983 |
| Issue: | 35 |
| Pages: | 289 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X) |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521243394 |
| Geographic terms: | Kenya Zimbabwe |
| Subject: | economic history |
| Abstract: | The economic history of developing countries has become polarised between two ideologies: the apologists for colonialism have emphasised the stimulus given to the indigenous economy by the introduction of foreign capital; the ùnderdeveloped theorists' do not speak of stimulus, but of rape and plunder. This study, which considers the economies of colonial Kenya and Southern Rhodesia, argues, in the light of recently assembled statistical data, that the truth is more complex than either of these simple interpretations allows. Contents: introduction - the political constraints on economic behaviour - African agricultural development - the labour market - European agriculture - secondary industry. |
