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Margery Freda Perham was born in 1895 in Lancashire, England.She attended St. Anne’s School, Abbots Bromley; St.Stephens College, Windsor; and St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. Shebegan her professional career as an assistant lecturer in historyat Sheffield University. Then, after a year in Somaliland (1922-3),She was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History and “ModernGreats” at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (1924-9). In 1931-2 shewent around the world on a Rhodes Traveling Fellowship tostudy the administration of colored races in North America, Polynesia,Australia, and Africa. The next year took her to WestAfrica, and she has made frequent visits to Africa and the WestIndies since. She has been a Research Fellow of St. Hugh’s College(1930-9); Reader in Colonial Administration at Oxford(1939-48); Director of Oxford University Institute of ColonialStudies (1945-8); Fellow in Imperial Govemment, Nuffield College,Oxford, since 1947. Miss Perham was named a Commanderof the British Empire in 1948; awarded an honorary doctorate oflaws by St. Andrews University in 1952; elected a Fellow of theBritish Academy in 1961. Her publications include Native Administrationin Nigeria (1937), Race and Politics in

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Author

Perham, Margery Freda, Perham, Margery

Publisher

Greenwood Press, Publishers, Westport, Connecticut

Published

1961

Language

EN

ISBN

9780837190167

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, History, African History