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Robert Thorne Coryndon : Proconsular Imperialism in Southern and Eastern Africa, 1897-1925

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" ser...

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Autor principal: Youe, Christopher P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780889205482