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Titel: Retreat from Empire
Zustand: New
Subtitle: Sir Robert Armitage in Africa and Cyprus
Autor: Colin Baker
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN-10: 1860642233
EAN: 9781860642234
ISBN: 9781860642234
Verlag: I.B. Tauris
Genre: History
Thematik: Biography
Release date: 31/12/1998
Description: Using private papers, government records and interviews and correspondence with politicians and a large number of officers who served with him in Africa and Cyprus, Professor Baker carefully and sensitively traces Robert Armitage's colonial service career. He served in four colonies and Baker meticulously follows Armitage's career in each. In Kenya, as a district officer Armitage outstandingly set up the massive Isiolo refugee camp and as a secretariat officer his onerous finance work stood Kenya, and his own future, in good stead. As Nkrumah's finance minister he conscientiously helped the Gold Coast's rapid progress to independence. He was Governor of Cyprus when violence broke out and attempts were made on his life in 1955, and Governor of Nyasaland during the Central Africa Federation's middle years and the 1959 state of emergency. Baker examines Armitage's dealings with those responsible for colonial policy and changes in it - Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Home, Perth, Amery, Lennox-Boyd and Macleod - and the conflicts which resulted.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: GB
Höhe: 216mm
Länge: 138mm

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