Into Africa : the imperial life of Margery Perham / C. Brad Faught.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faught, C. Brad.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Perham, Margery, 1895-1982.

Perham, Margery.

English--Africa--Biography.

English.

Authors, English--20th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Colonies.

History.

Great Britain.

Africa.

Africa--History--1884-1960.

Africa--History--1960-.

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--20th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

ix, 198 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Childhood and Youth: A Proper Girl 1

2 Oxford Undergraduate: Amidst the Dreaming Spires 7

3 In Exile and Into Africa: From Sheffield to Somaliland 15

4 Oxford Again and Around the World 35

5 Journey to West Africa and Becoming an Africanist 67

6 Oxford, Nuffield, and the Colonial Service: Africa Ipsissima 85

7 Lugard's Friend and Biographer 109

8 Britain's 'Conscience on Africa': Perham the Public Intellectual 127

9 Last Things 153.

Notes:

Includes bibliographic references and index.

ISBN:

9781848854901

1848854900

OCLC:

751754679