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Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Social Work and the Development Process -- chapter 2 Seeking Clarity through a Management Model -- chapter 3 Development as Community Development -- I -- chapter 4 Development as Community Development -- II -- chapter 5 Social Planning and Development -- I: Simple Organisations -- chapter 6 Social Planning and Development -- II: Complex Organisations -- chapter 7 Social Action for Change -- I: The Outsiders -- chapter 8 Social Action for Change -- II: The Insiders -- chapter 9 Evaluation.

Was the Battle of Hastings a French victory? Non! William the Conqueror was Norman and hated the French. Were the Brits really responsible for the death of Joan of Arc? Non! The French sentenced her to death for wearing trousers. Was the guillotine a French invention? Non! It was invented in Yorkshire. Ten centuries' worth of French historical 'facts' bite the dust as Stephen Clarke looks at what has really been going on since 1066

Between 1870 and 1901, seventeen officers from the British army were appointed by the governments of the Australian colonies and New Zealand as commanders of their colonial military forces. There has been considerable speculation about the roles of these officers as imperial agents, developing colonial forces as a wartime reserve to imperial forces, but little in depth research. This thesis examines the role of the imperial commandants with an embryonic system of imperial defence and their contribution to the development of the colonial military forces. It is therefore a topic in British imperial history as much as Australian and New Zealand military history. British officers were appointed by colonial governments to overcome a shortfall in professional military expertise but increasingly came to be viewed by successive British administrations as a means of fulfilling an imperial defence agenda. The commandants as men-on-the-spot , however, viewed themselves as independent reformers and got offside with both the imperial and colonial governments. This fact reveals that the commandants occupied a difficult position between the aspirations of London and the reality of the colonies. They certainly brought an imperial perspective to their commands and looked forward to the colonies playing a role on the imperial stage but generally did so in terms of a personal agenda rather than one set by London. This assessment is best demonstrated in the commandants independent stance at the outset of the South African War. The practice of appointing British commandants in Australasia was fraught with problems because of an inherent conflict in the goals of the commandants and their colonial governments. It resembles the Canadian experience of the British officers which reveals that the system of imperials military appointments as a whole was flawed. The problem remained that until a sufficient number of colonial officers had the prerequisite professional expertise for high command there was no alternative. The commandants were ...

Community development describes a professional intervention technique for building and strengthening communities. Over the years, the methods and values of this approach to planned social change have evolved. This book plots that history with care, and shows how the lessons of the past can be used to create a model for today that can be used in a wide variety of contexts