From empire to the commonwealth : reflections on a career in Britain's Overseas Service
John O'Regan's career in the British Colonial Service saw him serve in Ceylon, Jamaica, Uganda and, finally, Iran. In this book he gives an account of the concerns of the Overseas Civil Service during the period spanning the end of the empire and the emergence of independent nation-states.
Print Book, English, 1994
Radcliffe, London, 1994
xi, 196 pages : [8] pages of plates
9781850437772, 1850437777
59937586
Family background and upbringing; Ceylon cadetships and the colonial service; Ceylon - the early years; private secretary; Kandy and Colombo; Nuwara Eliya; Trincomalee; Jamaica; Nigeria; Overseas Service for the new Commonwealth?; Uganda; Iran.