Britain and Africa Under Blair : In pursuit of the good state.

Britain and Africa Under Blair : In pursuit of the good state.

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gallagher, Julia.
Imprint:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2011.
Description:	1 online resource (177 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Blair, Tony, -- 1953- Blair, Tony, -- 1953- Economic assistance, British -- Africa -- History. Diplomatic relations. Economic assistance, British. Politics and government. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Africa. Africa -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain. Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1997- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1997-2007. Africa. Great Britain. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11166945

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ISBN:	9781847794222 184779422X 9781781702253 178170225X 9780719085000 0719085004
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Africa was a key focus of Britain's foreign policy under Tony Blair. Military intervention in Sierra Leone, increases in aid and debt relief, and grand initiatives such as the Commission for Africa established the continent as a place in which Britain could 'do good'. Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state critically explores Britain's fascination with Africa. It argues that, under New Labour, Africa represented an area of policy that appeared to transcend politics. Gradually, it came to embody an ideal state activity around which politicians, officials and the wider publ.
Other form:	Print version: Gallagher, Julia. Britain and Africa Under Blair : In pursuit of the good state. Manchester : Manchester University Press, ©2011 9780719085000

Table of Contents:

1. New Labour: doing good in Africa
2. Ideas of the good and the political
3. How the British found utopia in Africa
4. The good, the bad and the ambiguous
5. Healing the scar?
6. Idealisation in Africa
7. The good state
8. Conclusion.