Into Africa : the imperial life of Margery Perham / C. Brad Faught.
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 acq...
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2012.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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
- Britains 'Conscience on Africa' : Perham the public intellectual
- Last things.