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"This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ... These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary."--Jacket.
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Robert Coryndon was born in 1870 in Queenstown, Cape Colony, the son of an English immigrant father and a mother belonging to a distinguished Cape family. Despite the fact that a mere three years of his education were received back "Home" in England, this most able "Colonial" served twenty-eight years as the top-ranking administrator of African dependencies, "a career unmatched by any other English governor." His proconsular rule began with his establishment of a colonial regime in Barotseland 1897-1907, and ended with his governorship of Kenya from 1922 until his death in 1925. While in Kenya
Coryndon, Robert Thorne, --- Afrique australe --- Afrique orientale --- Africa, East --- Africa, Southern --- Politique et gouvernement. --- Politics and government. --- Colonial administrators
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As a young man in South Africa, Nelson Mandela aspired to be an interpreter or clerk, noting in his autobiography that "a career as a civil servant was a glittering prize for an African." Africans in the lower echelons of colonial bureaucracy often held positions of little official authority, but in practice the occupants of these positions functioned as hidden lynchpins of colonial rule. As the primary intermediaries among European colonial officials, African chiefs, and subject populations, these men (and a few women) could manipulate the intersections of power, authority, and knowledge at the center of colonial society. By uncovering the role of African civil servants in the construction, function, and legal apparatus of colonial states, the essays in this volume highlight a new perspective. They offer important insights on hegemony, collaboration and resistance, structures and changes in colonial rule, the role of language and education, the production of knowledge and expertise in colonial settings, and the impact of colonization in dividing African societies by gender, race, status, and class.
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Colonial administrators --- Translators --- Administrateurs coloniaux --- Traducteurs --- History. --- Histoire --- Africa --- Europe --- Afrique --- History --- Colonies --- Administration. --- Administration --- Interpreters --- Linguists --- Translating services --- Civil service, Colonial --- Government executives --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- 20e siècle --- 19e siècle
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027.1 <41> --- 090.1 <41> --- Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Bibliofilie--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 090.1 <41> Bibliofilie--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 027.1 <41> Particuliere bibliotheken. Familiebibliotheken. Personenbibliotheken--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Book collectors --- Colonial administrators --- Governors --- Book owners --- Books --- Book selection --- Collectors and collecting --- Private libraries --- Kings and rulers --- Public officers --- Grey, George,
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