Exporting empire: Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c.1900?39
Exporting empire: Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c.1900?39
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.
978-0-7190-8368-6
Manchester University Press
Prior, Christopher
01a410aa-e20e-4b41-922c-7b2adf8a9265
February 2013
Prior, Christopher
01a410aa-e20e-4b41-922c-7b2adf8a9265
Prior, Christopher
(2013)
Exporting empire: Africa, colonial officials and the construction of the British imperial state, c.1900?39
(Studies in Imperialism Series),
Manchester, GB.
Manchester University Press, 240pp.
Abstract
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.
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