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The Reith Lectures: Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning: The Problem of White Settlement

1961: Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning

07/12/1961

The Problem of White Settlement

Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning

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Margery Perham considers the problem of the European colonists.

Margery Perham considers the problem of the European colonists in her fourth lecture entitled 'The Problem of White Settlement'.

African affairs writer and lecturer Margery Perham discusses the effects of colonialism in tropical Africa. In 1939 she became the first female fellow of Nuffield College at Oxford University before being appointed as Director of the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies in 1945. In her Reith series entitled 'The Colonial Reckoning', she highlights problems of colonial rule.

In this lecture entitled 'The Problem of White Settlement', she considers the problem of the European colonists, and the delicate question of race relations. 

The Reith Lectures: Margery Perham - The Colonial Reckoning

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Margery Perham, lecturer on African affairs, considers the effects of colonialism.

Margery Perham, writer and lecturer on African affairs and first Director of the Oxford Institute of Colonial Studies, considers the effects of colonialism in six Reith lectures.

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