Improvising planned development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980 /
[Book]
Maurits W. Ertsen
1 online resource.
Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology
Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction Settling Certain Details Coming to a Deal; Chapter 1 Cotton from a Wilderness: The Early Negotiations; Chapter 2 A Task of Some Magnitude: Gezira Management Logic; Chapter 3 No Man Can Serve Two Masters: Designing Gezira Irrigation; Chapter 4 Making the Best of a Rotten Deal: Tenant Realities and Resistance; Chapter 5 Another's Week's Toil: British SPS Inspectors and Their Idea(l)s; Chapter 6 Move from the Old Grooves: Gezira Continuity and Change after World War II
Chapter 7 The Everlasting Rectangles: Gezira and International DevelopmentEpilogue A Typical Battlefield: Understanding Negotiated Development; Archival Sources; Notes; References; Index
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Improvising planned development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980
9781137568175
Agriculture and state-- Sudan-- Gezira (Region)-- History.
Agriculture-- Economic aspects-- Sudan-- Gezira (Region)-- History.
Irrigation-- Sudan-- Gezira (Region)-- History.
Regional planning-- Sudan-- Gezira (Region)-- History.