A H M Kirk‐greene

Biographic Data

ID3586002
NAMEA H M Kirk‐greene
GIVEN NAMESA H M
FAMILY NAMEKirk‐greene
SIGNATUREGREENE A H M K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS179
TOTAL CITATIONS287
AUTHOR COUNT179
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX9

  • Back to the Barracks: A Decade of Marking Time

    Valerie Plave Bennett, A H M Kirk-Greene et al.CHAPTERSoldiers and Oil2023

    In the Nigerian case, early beliefs in a caretaker administration and a speedy transition proved illusory. At the time of the military take-over of January 1966, a quick return to barracks was generally taken for granted. The successive blueprints for the return to civilian rule reveal a preoccupation with a fairly constant set of issues, very similar to those which had faced the Nigerians and the departing colonial power in the late 1950s. A ret…

  • West Africa: Nigeria and Ghana

    A H M Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERPolitics and Government in…2022

    When Britain handed over power to her first tropical African colony in 1957, the Gold Coast was widely recognized as Britain’s model colonial possession on the continent. It had more schools and health services per capita and a better road system than any other British territory in Africa. It also boasted a robust, non-plantation, peasant economy, a prosperous middle class, a distinguished history of higher education, an able administrative elite…

  • Ethnological Notes

    A H M Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERAdamawa Past and Present2018

  • Decolonization: The Ultimate Diaspora

    Anthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTEREuropean Decolonization2017

    This chapter examines the diaspora of members of each of Britain&s;s three overseas civil services between 1947, when the first of them was terminated, and 1980, when the last of HMG agencies established to help the resettlement of its imperial officials, the Overseas Service Resettlement Bureau, was closed on the grounds of mission accomplished. The study of decolonization has largely focused on the receiving end of imperialism, its process and …

  • Entente Cordiale ou Enquête Coloniale? Margery Perham Hands Down Her Suspended Judgement

    A H M Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneARTICLEThe Journal of Imperial &…2009References: 10

    Dame Margery Perham, acclaimed as the foremost academic expert on British colonial administration, also gained much experience and showed much interest in its French counterpart. Her thoughts on this, however, were never published in her lifetime. This article, based her diaries (published posthumously under the editorship of the article's author) and other previously little-known material, reconstructs her views on French colonial rule and how s…

  • Symbol of Authority: The British District Officer in Africa

    Anthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneBOOKSymbol of Authority2006Cited by: 11

    The district officer - the D.O. - was the pivot of the British Colonial Administration throughout the British Empire, as was his counterpart in India - immortalized in Philip Woodruff’s “The Men who Ruled India”. The D.O. who was both administrator and magistrate and the essential link with the professional and technical services and essentially, with the indigenous population - the 600,000,000 people they served - in an empire of service rather …

  • When the World Was Red

    Eugenia W Herbert, Anthony Kirk-Greene et al.ARTICLEAfrican Studies Review2003

    WHEN THE WORLD WAS RED Anthony Kirk-Greene. Britain's Imperial Administrators, 1858-1966 Basingstoke: Macmillan/New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. xv + 347 pp. Map. Tables. Notes. Thematic bibliography. Index. $79.95. Cloth. $22.95. Paper. Anthony Kirk-Greene. Glimpses of Empire: A Corona Anthology. London/New York: LB. Tauris, 2001. xxvi + 302 pp. Illustrations. Index of authors. Price not reported. Cloth. Douglas Rimmer and Anthony Kirk-Greene…

  • The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century

    Atieno Odhiambo, Douglas Rimmer et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…2002

  • Glimpses of Empire: A Corona Anthology

    Anthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneBOOKGlimpses of Empire2001Cited by: 1

    In this unique collection of writings culled from the Corona Club Bulletin, we see the governor in council and the DO in the field and a myriad of professional officers–agricultural, educational, medical, veterinary, engineering, nursing--at work. The contributions range from the political, constitutional, and the “daily round” of administration and service, to personal, family, sporting and service life. The writings, chosen and edited by Anthon…

  • Decolonization: The Ultimate Diaspora

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2001Cited by: 4

    Among the numerous aspects of decolonization (mostly political and economic) studied during the half-century since the beginning of the end of the British Empire, one major social phenomenon has received very little attention in the literature. This is the diaspora of the expatriate career civil servants who were still employed by HM government when independence was granted. Between the transfer of power in India in 1947 and that of Hong Kong in …

  • On Crown Service: A History of H. M. Colonial and Overseas Civil Services, 1837-1997

    Open AccessJohn Flint, Anthony Kirk-Greene et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2001

  • A Comparative Study of Thirty City‐State Cultures

    A H M Kirk‐greene, Anthony Kirk‐greeneARTICLEAfrican Affairs2001

    Edited by Mogens Herman Hansen. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2000. 636pp. DKR 600 (c.£55) hardback. ISBN 87‐7876‐177‐8.

  • The British Intellectual Engagement with Africa in the Twentieth Century

    Phil Zachernuk, Anthony Kirk-Greene et al.ARTICLECanadian Journal of African…2001Cited by: 5

  • Decolonization, Early Retirement and Second Careers

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    If the reverse face of the coin of decolonization has been the emergence of the Third World, equally the reverse of the primacy of localization in the public services was the withdrawal of Britain’s Crown civil servants overseas from the independent nations-to-be. Chapter 8 considered the principle, process and pace of localization; Chapter 9 looks at the winding up of the respective Services, studied in their heyday in Part II, in the context of…

  • The Indian Civil Service, 1858–1947

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    In the eyes of those Britons who, in the age of Empire, were to an extent aware of — and, more relevantly, were actors in — imperial administration, and in the minds of most young men who had already set their sights on a career in administration overseas, the Indian Civil Service enjoyed pre-eminence in the ranking order. ‘The Civil Service of Pakistan is the successor in Pakistan of the Indian Civil Service’, proclaimed an official recruiting p…

  • Proconsuls at the Top

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    Empire is frequently analysed under such contradictory concepts as trusteeship and exploitation or under such single rubrics as ideology, the diffusion of ideas and the transfer of technology, or, in more recent retrospect, race relations, gender and cultural imperialism. Other, secondary but popular, interpretations rest on the evidence of fiction, themes of adventure and ‘deeds of Empire’, brought to a peak in the writings of G. A. Henty and Ru…

  • Anatomizing the Making of the Generic District Officer

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    It is impossible to read the literature on Britain’s overseas administrative services without encountering the qualifying term ‘elite’: an elite Service, a corps d’élite , an administrative elite. 1 If the study of Britain’s Home Civil Service has, since the Trevelyan-Northcote Report of 1854, focused on access to merit through open competition, that on her overseas civil services has emphasized their elite properties. In all three overseas admin…

  • On Company and Other Crown Service Overseas

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    Part II examines the recruitment, composition, structure and work of the Administrative (in some instances and at some periods called Political) branches of Britain’s three principal overseas civil services: in the Indian Empire, in the Colonial Empire, and in the Condominium of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In the century covered by this study, these were the imperial civil services which regularly offered a life-time career in government administra…

  • An Empire to be Administered: The Metropolitan Organization

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    On the eve of the Second World War — as it turned out, in itself an event destined to become an imperial turning-point of unforeseeable magnitude — the British Empire comprised almost twelve million square miles. That was over a quarter of the world’s inhabited land mass, eighty times the size of Great Britain. Modestly, the Colonial Office, with authority over thirty-five countries, took care to point out that this impressive statistic did not i…

  • Empowering the Imperial Administrator

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    This book has offered a socio-institutional history of the composition and work of Britain’s three principal corps of overseas administrators during the century c. 1860 to c. 1960. This was the era which saw Britain’s ad hoc appointments of imperial administrators cohere into elite cadres of professionals and the Service convert into a major career option for hundreds of British graduates in search of Crown service overseas. The same century witn…

  • The Transfer of Power and Localization

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    The first decade following the transfer of power to successive new nations from within the colonial empire was characterized by a glow of mutual congratulations on one feature above all in the imperial governmental legacy. This was the inheritance of a sound civil service derived from many years of the finest British traditions of efficiency, dedication, loyalty to whatever elected government was in power, and total incorruptibility. That at leas…

  • The Sudan Political Service, 1899–1955

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    Of Britain’s three principal overseas civil services considered here, the Sudan Political Service — the key provincial administration — was at once the youngest and the smallest of them all. Established in 1899, forty years after the Indian Civil Service (ICS), and abolished in 1955 (indeed, no British officers were recruited after 1952), forty years before the one-time Colonial Service (later HMOCS) approached the end of its time in Hong Kong, a…

  • The Colonial Administrative Service, 1895–1966

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneCHAPTERBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000

    The Colonial Service is not only the longest-lived of Britain’s three pre-eminent overseas civil services under examination here, it is also by far the largest. On the other hand, while there is no room for argument over the exact dates of the life of the ICS, 1858–1947 (allowing for historians of bureaucracy to trace the pre-Crown continuities in administrative structure and system from the East India Company’s Civil Service), and a largely acad…

  • Accredited to Africa: British diplomatic representation and African experience, c . 1960–95

    Open AccessA H M Kirk‐greeneARTICLEDiplomacy and Statecraft2000Cited by: 1

    How justified is the complaint sometimes voiced by British businessmen and other UK visitors to contemporary Africa that, compared to ‘the [good old] colonial days’, Britain's FCO representatives have no experience of Africa and little idea about who's who and what's going on in their bailiwick? The aim of this article is to construct a professional profile of Britain's Heads of Mission assigned to newly independent African states over the past 3…

  • Britain’s Imperial Administrators, 1858–1966

    Open AccessAnthony Kirk-Greene, A H M Kirk‐greeneBOOKBritain's Imperial Administrators,…2000Cited by: 23

    Contents List of Tables List of Maps Introduction Anatomizing the Making of the Generic District Officer An Empire to Administer: the Metropolitan Officer On Company and Other Crown Service Overseas The Indian Civil Service, 1857-1947 The Colonial Administrative Service, 1895-1966 The Sudan Political Service, 1899-1955 Preconsuls at the Top The Transfer of Power and Localization Notes Bibliography Index