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100 _aDimier, Veronique
245 _aThree universities and the British elite: a science of colonial administration in the UK
260 _c2006
300 _ap.337-66.
520 _aIn this article we examine how the science of colonial administration, which evolved within the training for colonial administrators in the decades 1930-50 in Britain, became institutionalized in British Universities. We will see that both the colonial context and the somewhat ambivalent conception of colonial administration conveyed by academics such as Margery Perham, Lucy Mair and officials from the Colonial Office may have justified the need to consider colonial administration to be a scientific discipline in its own right, but that it was perhaps the fight between the universities to control and produce the British administrative elite which provided the driver that helped that science to gain institutional legitimacy. - Reproduced.
650 _aCivil service - Great Britain
650 _aCivil service
773 _aPublic Administration
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