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Auteur(s) : Faught, Curtis Brad (1963-...)
Titre(s) : Into Africa [Texte imprimé] : the imperial life of Margery Perham / C. Brad Faught
Publication : London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012
Description matérielle : ix, 198 pages-[8] p. de pl. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Comprend : Childhood and youth : a proper girl ; Oxford undergraduate : amidst the dreaming
spires ; In exile and into Africa : from Sheffield to Somaliland ; Oxford again
and around the world ; Journey to West Africa and becoming an Africanist ; Oxford
Nuffield, and the Colonial Service : Africa Ipsissima ; Lugard's friend and biographer
; Britians 'Conscience on Africa' : Perham the public intellectual ; Last things.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
In the long history of the British Empire there are few stories as singular as that
of Margery Perham. From the moment she first set foot on African soil in 1921, to
her death over sixty years later, Perham was focused on the ways and means of Britain's
administration of its African domains. She acquired an unrivalled expertise in all
aspects of this branch of empire: its systems of governance and those who administered
them; its economic impact; its geo-strategic implications and its effect on Africans,
including their sense of nationalism and attitudes towards the end of empire. She
spent a long and varied career exploring the continent as a traveller, academic, prolific
author, and high-level government policy adviser. In later years, Dame Margery Perham,
as she became in 1965, was Britain's best-known voice on the end of empire and African
independence. In this new biography, the first of its kind and based primarily on
Perham's extensive private papers, C. Brad Faught tells her life story in all its
richness while throwing fresh light on Britain's twentieth-century imperial experience
Sujet(s) : Perham, Margery (1895-1982)
Colonies britanniques -- Afrique -- Administration
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781848854901 (hbk.). - ISBN 1848854900 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43855670b
Notice n° :
FRBNF43855670
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