Record ID:
35457360 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Clapham (London, England)
Death:
  • Cambridge (England)
Occupations:
  • Historians
Used for:
  • Robinson, Ronald Edward, 1920-
  • Robinson, R. E. (Ronald Edward), 1920-1999
Notes:
  • Africa and the Victorians: the official mind of imperialism, 1961: title page (itle page (Ronald Robinson, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge)
  • Wikipedia, April 29, 2015 (Ronald Robinson; Ronald "Robbie" Edward Robinson, FBA (3 September 1920-19 June 1999) was a distinguished historian of the British Empire whobetween 1971 and 1981 held the Beit Professorship of Commonwealth History at the University of Oxford; after schooling at Battersea Grammar School, he proceeded to St.John's College, Cambridge as a History Scholar in 1938; with the outbreak of the Second World War he joined the Royal Air Force, eventually spending most of his armed service in Africa; between 1947 and 1949, Robinson worked on the subject of "trusteeship" for his doctorate at Cambridge; he was subsequently elected a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge in 1949; Robinson's extraordinarily influential work, Africa and the Victorians: The Official Mind of Imperialism, was co-authored with John Gallagher (with the help of his wife Alice Denny) and first published in 1961; upon Robinson's retirement from Oxford in 1987, a book of essays entitled Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas was published in his honour)
Local system number:
  • 000000459940
  • abv00389253
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • kin