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Improvising planned development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980 [electronic resource] / Maurits W. Ertsen.

Ertsen, Maurits W., 1968- author.
2016
HD1741.S852 G4947 2016eb
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Title
Improvising planned development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980 [electronic resource] / Maurits W. Ertsen.
Author
Ertsen, Maurits W., 1968- author.
ISBN
9781137568182 (electronic book)
1137568186 (electronic book)
9781349563302
9781137568175
1137568178
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56818-2
Published
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
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1 online resource.
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10.1007/978-1-137-56818-2 doi
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HD1741.S852 G4947 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
333.76/15096264
Summary
The book tells the story of the Gezira Scheme, a large-scale irrigation scheme started in 1925 under British colonial rule in Sudan.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in the history of science and technology.
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Improvising planned development on the Gezira Plain, Sudan, 1900-1980
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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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