Into Africa

Informationen zum Autor 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'. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Vorwort
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.

Autorentext
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'.

Inhalt
List of Plates vi Preface and Acknowledgements vii 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 Ipissimia 85 7. Lugard's Friend and Biographer 109 8. Britain's 'Conscience on Africa': Perham the Public Intellectual 127 9. Last Things 153 Chronology 163 Notes 164 Bibliography of Books by Margery Perham 187 Index 189