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Author Wagner, Florian, 1982- author.

Title Colonial internationalism and the governmentality of empire, 1893-1982 / Florian Wagner, University of Erfurt
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 421 pages) : illustrations
Series Global and international history
Global and international history.
Contents "More beautiful than the nationalist thought"? Colonialist fraternization and the birth of transnational cooperation -- A transcolonial govermentality sui generis : the invention of emulative development -- Politics of comparison : the Dutch model and the reform of colonial training schools -- Cultivating the myth of transcolonial progress : the ICI and the global career of Buitenzorg's agronomic laboratory -- The adatization of Islamic law and Muslim codes of development -- Creating an "anti-Geneva bloc" and the question of representivity -- Inventing fascist Eurafrica at the Volta congress -- False authenticity : the Fokon'olona and the cooperative world commonwealth -- "That has been our program for fifty years" : sustained development and loyal emancipation after 1945
Summary "In 1893, a group of colonial officials from thirteen colonies abandoned their imperial rivalry and established the International Colonial Institute (ICI), the world's most important colonial think tank of the twentieth century. Through the lens of the ICI, Florian Wagner argues that these colonial internationalists reshaped colonialism as a transimperial governmental policy, demonstrating that the ICI's goal of encouraging colonial development through the international cooperation of colonial experts in fact served to maintain colonial rule beyond the official end of empires. By inviting the colonized elites to participate, it laid the groundwork for the structural and discursive dependence of the Global South. The book presents a detailed study of the ICI's creation, the transnational activities of its prominent members, its interactions with state governments and colonial actors, and the reactions of Africans and Asians who were unsure as to whether the ICI was a tool of colonialism or an objective third party that might aid their calls for greater autonomy"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 11, 2022)
Subject International Colonial Institute -- History
SUBJECT International Colonial Institute fast
Subject Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century
Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 20th century
Colonization -- History -- 19th century
Colonization -- History -- 20th century
Internationalism -- History -- 19th century
Internationalism -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY / World.
Colonies -- Administration
Colonization
Internationalism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021057933
ISBN 9781009080033
1009080032
9781009072229
1009072226