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The Imperial Bureaucrat: The Colonial Administrative Service in the Gold Coast, 1920-1939 (Hoover Colonial Studies)
by Kuklick, Henrika
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0817971718
- ISBN 13
- 9780817971717
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Stanford, CA, U.S.A.: Hoover Institution Press, 1979. This is a signed copy of an ethnography of the British colonial service that examines the district officers in Ghana during the period between the world wars, their individual backgrounds, their collective value system, and their behavior patterns; this is the author's own copy of her first book, signed on the front end paper (dark green cloth with gold lettering on front & spine; very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright,, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006020
- Title
- The Imperial Bureaucrat: The Colonial Administrative Service in the Gold Coast, 1920-1939 (Hoover Colonial Studies)
- Author
- Kuklick, Henrika
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0817971718
- ISBN 13
- 9780817971717
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Place of Publication
- Stanford, CA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1979
- Bookseller catalogs
- Africa; Sociology;
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