The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service

Originally published in 1938, this book provides a history of the civil service in British colonies.

Charles Jeffries (Author)

9781107475021, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 January 2015

288 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.6 cm, 0.39 kg

Originally published in 1938, this book provides a history of the civil service in British colonies, as well as a review of the contemporary colonial service. Jeffries also details the financial organisation of colonial governments, as well as a summary of appointments to colonial posts from 1921 to 1936. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in British colonial history.

Introduction. The colonial empire
Part I. The Development of the Colonial Service
2. Expansion in Africa
3. The Great War and the period of reconstruction
4. The problem of the scientific services
5. The Warren Fisher committee
6. The unification of the service
7. Progress of the policy of unification
Part II. The Colonial Service To-Day: 8. General structure of the service
9. Conditions of employment
10. The colonial administrative service
11. The colonial legal service
12. The colonial medical service
13. The colonial forest service, the colonial agricultural service and the colonial veterinary service
14. Other unified branches of the colonial service
15. Branches not as yet unified
16. Governors
17. The colonial office
18. Retrospect and prospect
Appendices: I. The financial organisation of colonial governments
II. Summary of appointments in the years 1921 to 1936
III. Important dates in the history of the colonial service
IV. Note on books
V. List of governorships
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]