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Lugard in Hong Kong : empires, education and a governor at work, 1907-1912 / Bernard Mellor.
Van Pelt Library DS796.H753 L85 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mellor, Bernard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lugard, F. D. (Frederick Dealtry), Sir, 1858-1945.
- Lugard, F. D.
- Governors--China--Hong Kong--Biography.
- Governors.
- China--Hong Kong.
- Hong Kong (China)--History.
- Hong Kong (China).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 216 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [1992]
- Summary:
- Celebrates the five-year term of Sir Frederick Lugard as the British colonial governor of Hong Kong during a period of turmoil in China. Focuses on his founding of the University of Hong Kong as a means of creating a stable middle class, and spreading the English language and Western ideas and values in the orient. Well illustrated, and filled with anecdotes of his private life. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Notes:
- Col. ill. on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9622093167
- OCLC:
- 27099795
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