Into Africa

C. Brad Faught is Associate Professor of History at Tyndale University College, Toronto. He holds a MSt in British and Commonwealth History from St Antony's College, Oxford, and a PhD from The University of Toronto. He specialises in Imperial History and Politics, but also in the relationship between Christianity and Imperialism. He is the author of 'The New A-Z of Empire' (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming 2011); 'Gordon: Victorian Hero' and 'The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians'.

List of Plates – vi
Preface and Acknowledgements – vii
1. Childhood and Youth: A Proper Girl – 1
2. Oxford Undergraduate: Amidst the Dreaming Spires – 7
3. In Exile and Into Africa: From Sheffield to Somaliland – 15
4. Oxford Again and Around the World – 35
5. Journey to West Africa and Becoming an Africanist – 67
6. Oxford, Nuffield, and the Colonial Service: Africa Ipissimia – 85
7. Lugard’s Friend and Biographer – 109
8. Britain’s ‘Conscience on Africa’: Perham the Public Intellectual – 127
9. Last Things – 153
Chronology – 163
Notes – 164
Bibliography of Books by Margery Perham – 187
Index – 189