The Cocos-Keeling Islands: A Demographic Laboratory by T E Smith - 1960

London: University of London Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 1960. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Offprint from Population Studies, Vol XIV, No 2, November 1960, pp 94-130, reprinted for private circulation. In very good condition in red printed wrappers, a little rubbed, short tear to head of spine, the pages are very fresh. From the collection of Kenneth Robinson (1914-2005), a distinguished civil servant who became an expert on colonial government and administration. He was closely involved in international aspects of postwar planning, including former colonies, in south-West Africa (now Namibia), and became the Commonwealth Office expert on French West Africa. He became assistant secretary in the CO in 1946 (and head of the West African department), but resigned in 1948 to become reader in Commonwealth government at Oxford and subsequently director and professor of commonwealth affairs at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in London. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1972. Very Good 1960