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Alleyne Ireland
1871–1951
A restless traveler and prolific writer, he explored the politics and administration of the British Empire's tropical colonies and turned those journeys into books, lectures, and newspaper work. He also wrote a vivid memoir about Joseph Pulitzer, showing a very different side of his career.
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An Adventure with a Genius: Recollections of Joseph Pulitzer
by Alleyne Ireland
About the author
Born in Manchester on January 19, 1871, he was a British traveler and author whose work focused on colonial government, especially in the tropics. He studied at Manchester Grammar School and the University of Berlin, and traveled widely through places including India, Burma, the Malay Peninsula, Java, Borneo, French Indochina, the Philippines, the West Indies, and British Guiana.
In the early 1900s, he wrote a series of articles for The Times of London on British colonial administration in the tropics. He also lectured at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and the Lowell Institute. A major part of his career grew out of work connected with the University of Chicago, including his large study The Province of Burma.
His books range from studies of colonization and imperial policy to An Adventure With a Genius, his recollections of Joseph Pulitzer. He died on December 23, 1951. Today, he is mainly remembered as a wide-ranging observer of empire whose writing captures both the ambitions and the assumptions of his era.