Into Africa

The Imperial Life of Margery Perham

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-05-28
Mått135 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt263 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor208
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350163485

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C. Brad Faught is Associate Professor of History at Tyndale University College, Toronto. He holds a MSt in British and Commonwealth History from St Antony's College, Oxford, and a PhD from The University of Toronto. He specialises in Imperial History and Politics, but also in the relationship between Christianity and Imperialism. He is the author of 'The New A-Z of Empire' (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2011); 'Gordon: Victorian Hero' and 'The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians'.

List of Plates – viPreface and Acknowledgements – vii1. Childhood and Youth: A Proper Girl – 12. Oxford Undergraduate: Amidst the Dreaming Spires – 73. In Exile and Into Africa: From Sheffield to Somaliland – 154. Oxford Again and Around the World – 355. Journey to West Africa and Becoming an Africanist – 676. Oxford, Nuffield, and the Colonial Service: Africa Ipissimia – 857. Lugard’s Friend and Biographer – 1098. Britain’s ‘Conscience on Africa’: Perham the Public Intellectual – 1279. Last Things – 153Chronology – 163Notes – 164Bibliography of Books by Margery Perham – 187 Index – 189