Exporting empire: Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c. 1900-1939

Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism

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1. Verfasser: Prior, Christopher (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:Studies in imperialism
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Zusammenfassung:Looks at the attitudes of colonial officials in Africa who served between the end of the19th century and WWII, as well as what shaped such attitudes, including education and training, interrelationships, infrastructural change, and anti-colonial nationalism
For Africans, rank and file colonial officials were the most visible manifestation of British imperial power. But in spite of their importance in administering such vast imperial territories, the attitudes of officials who served between the end of the nineteenth century and the Second World War, as well as what shaped such attitudes, have yet to be examined in any systematic way. In this original and revisionist work, Prior draws upon an enormous array of private and official papers to address some key questions about the colonial services. How did officials’ education and training affect the ways that they engaged with Africa? How did officials relate to one another? How did officials seek to understand Africa and Africans? How did they respond to infrastructural change? How did they deal with anti-colonial nationalism? This work will be of value to students and lecturers alike interested in British, imperial and African history
Beschreibung:Abweichender Titelzusatz auf dem Cover: "Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c. 1900-39"
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 199 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781526118554
9781526118561
9781781704998
DOI:10.7765/9781526118554

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