General editor's introduction Introduction - Joseph Hodge and Gerald Hodl Part I: Meanings of development in twentieth-century colonialism 1. From dead end to new lease of life: development in South-Eastern Tanganyika from the late 1930s to the 1950s - Juhani Koponen 2. Developing 'Portuguese Africa' in late colonialism: confronting discourses - Claudia Castelo 3. A history of maendeleo: the concept of 'development' in Tanganyika's late colonial public sphere - Emma Hunter Part II: Economic and rural development 4. The 'private'face of African development planning during the Second World War - Billy Frank 5. Ecological concepts of development? The case of colonial Zambia - Sven Speek 6. Developing rural Africa: rural development discourse in colonial Zimbabwe, 1944-79 - E.Kushinga Makombe 7. The tractor as a tool of development? The mythologies and legacies of mechanised tropical agriculture in French Africa, 1944-56 - Celine Pessis Part III: Social development and welfare 8. From precondition to goal of development: health and medicine in the planning and politics of British Tanganyika - Walter Bruchhausen 9. 'Keystone of progress' and mise en valeur d'ensemble: British and French colonial discourses on education for development in the interwar period - Walter Schicho 10. Development and education in British colonial Nigeria, 1940-55 - Uyilawa Usuanlele 11. Motherhood, morality, and social order: gender and development discourse and practice in late colonial Africa - Barbara Bush Part IV: Discourse-analytical and literary perspectives on colonial development 12. The world the Portuguese developed: racial politics, Luso-tropicalism, and development discourse in late Portuguese colonialism - Caio Simoes de Araujoand Iolanda Vasile 13. Notions of 'developpement' in French colonial discourses: changes in discursive practices and their social implications - Francoise Dufour 14. Developing Africa in the colonial imagination: European and African narrative writing of the interwar period - Martina Kopf Epilogue: Taking stock, looking ahead - Joseph Hodge Bibliography Index.