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Into Africa

The Imperial Life of Margery Perham

by (author) C. Brad Faught

Publisher
I.B. Tauris
Initial publish date
Feb 2012
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781848854901
    Publish Date
    Feb 2012
    List Price
    $92

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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 traveler, 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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Contributor Notes

C. Brad Faught is Professor of History at Tyndale University College, Toronto. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Toronto, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. He is author of The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times; Gordon: Victorian Hero; The New A-Z of Empire: A Concise Handbook of British Imperial History ; and the forthcoming Clive: Founder of British India.

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