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Author

MacWilliam, Scott.

Title Securing village life : development in late colonial Papua New Guinea / Scott MacWilliam.

Publication Info.

Acton, A.C.T. : ANU E Press, 2013.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 306 pages) : colour map
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The international idea of development reformed -- Postwar development's uncertainties -- Uniform development framed, implemented and challenged -- Uniform development in practice -- Accelerated development -- Uncertain development and Independence -- Conclusion.
Summary	Securing Village Life: Development in Late Colonial Papua New Guinea examines the significance for post-World War II Australian colonial policy of the modern idea of development. Australian officials emphasised the importance of bringing development for both the colony of Papua and the United Nations Trust Territory of New Guinea. The principal form that development took involved securing smallholders against the tendencies of other forms of capitalist development that might have separated households from land. In order to make household occupation of their holdings more secure and at higher standards of living, the colonial administration coordinated and supervised increases in production of crops and other agricultural produce.Contrary to suggestions that colonial policy and practice ignored indigenous agriculture and concentrated on plantation crops grown by international firms and expatriate owner-occupiers, the study shows how the main focus was instead upon increasing smallholder output for immediate consumption as well as for local and international markets. Simultaneously development stimulated increases in consumption, including of goods produced through manufacturing processes and imported into the colony.Only as Independence approached was the pre-eminence of the earlier focus upon smallholders weakened. In part the change occurred due to the political advance of the indigenous capitalist class and their allies seeking to extend their base in largeholding agriculture and related commercial activities. This advance and the uncertainty over which form of development would prevail once indigenes held state power in post-colonial Papua New Guinea stood in marked contrast to the definite direction pursued under the colonial administration of the 1950s and early 1960s.
Note	Print version record.
Language	English.
Subject	Economic development projects -- Papua New Guinea.
	Australia -- Foreign economic relations.
	Papua New Guinea -- Foreign economic relations.
	Projets de développement économique -- Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée.
	Australie -- Relations économiques extérieures.
	Australasia, Oceania and other land areas.
	History.
	History: specific events and topics.
	Humanities.
	Melanesia.
	National liberation and independence, post-colonialism.
	Oceania.
	Papua New Guinea.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
	Economic development projects
	International economic relations
	Australia https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRv8PPH7gCqhkJ8DK8bM
	Papua New Guinea https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxrW6PwDKMhdgFpg3XDbd
Indexed Term	Development
	Papua new guinea
	Postcolonialism
Added Title	Development in late colonial Papua New Guinea
Other Form:	Print version: MacWilliam, Scott. Securing village life 9781922144843 (OCoLC)828647809
ISBN	9781922144850 (pdf)
	1922144851 (pdf)
	9781922144843
Standard No.	10.26530/OAPEN_459940 doi
	AU@ 000059668048
	AU@ 000069173655
	GBVCP 1008660167
	GBVCP 865754551
	NZ1 15354029