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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterloo :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (256 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780889205482 |


