books.google.ca - Conventional scholarly wisdom supports the notion that the Colonial Office did little more than coordinate and review the proposals of others during the administrative occupation of Africa. Consequently, historians--in various ways, and in varying degrees--have come to accept that the Colonial Office...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Colonial_Office_and_Nigeria_1898_191.html?id=lDFEOHnOl-0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Colonial Office and Nigeria, 1898 - 1914