On Crown Service: a History of HM Colonial and Overseas Civil Services 1837-1997

Anthony Kirk-Greene

ISBN 10: 1860642608 / ISBN 13: 9781860642609

Verlag: I.B. Tauris, 1999

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On Crown Service fills a large gap in the historical literature on the British Empire and will be used widely as a work of reference as well as for a history of the Colonial Service. It is a balanced and thorough account of a subject that no other than Kirk-Greene could have written. I am listing it among the 20 most important works on the British Empire in the twentieth century._ Wm. Roger Louis, University of Texas at Austin.

Published to commemorate the centenary of the Corona Club in 1999 and to mark the end of Her Majesty's Overseas Civil Services, this is the only institutional history of the Colonial Service to appear for over sixty years. Anthony Kirk-Greene has combined an extensive use of archival records and historical documentation with an unparalleled knowledge of secondary sources to produce a detailed, authoritative narrative of this most important era. This work will appeal to all historians and general readers with an interest in Britain's Colonial Service. It is destined to become the standard study of its history.

Contents:_ An Expanding Empire to Staff, 1837-1899; The Evolution of the Modern Colonial Service, 1900-1939; The Expansion of the post-war Colonial Service, 1943-1954; HMOCS: Reshaping a Successor Service, 1954-1997.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren:

Anthony Kirk-Greene is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

Anthony Kirk-Greene is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford.

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Titel: On Crown Service: a History of HM Colonial ...
Verlag: I.B. Tauris
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good