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Economic Development of Africa, 1880-1939

David Sunderland

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English
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
01 March 2011
One of the main motives for British imperialism in Africa was economic gain. This collection examines the ways in which Britain developed Africa, and, in so doing, benefited her own economy.

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Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   4.286kg
ISBN:   9781848930636
ISBN 10:   1848930631
Series:   Britain and Africa
Pages:   2272
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Volume 1: Agriculture: Non-Food and Drink W N Thomas, 'On the Oil Rivers of West Africa' (1872-5); Despatches relating to the Sierra Leone Oil Palm Industry and the Establishment of Oil Palm Plantations (1925); West Africa. Palm Oil and Palm Kernels. Report of a Committee Appointed ... to Consider the Best Means of Securing Improved and Increased Production (1925); H H Middleton, Report on the Ground-Nut Trade in Kano Province (1924); N M Penzer, Cotton in British West Africa, including Togoland and the Cameroons (1920); Empire Cotton Growing Corporation, The Cotton-Growing Industry in Uganda, Kenya, and the Mwanza District of Tanganyika (1925); J S Addison and H C Jefferys, Cotton Growing in Southern Africa and the Rhodesias (1927); S Simpson, 'British Central Africa Protectorate. Report on the Cotton-Growing Industry' (1905); F M Oliphant, Report on the Commercial Possibilities and Development of the Forests of Nigeria (1934); J W Nicholson, The Future of Forestry in Uganda (1929); W G Leckie, The Growing of Wattle and Production of Wattle Bark in Kenya (1932); A Moloney, West African Produce (Indigo &c.) (1890); Report of the Tobacco Advisory Committee (1936); J H Holland, Rubber Cultivation in West Africa (1901); Report on the Tobacco Industry (1924); E D Rutherford, Sisal in Kenya (1924); W L Speight, 'Big Game Hunting in South Africa' (1926); P Lyttelton Gell, The Rubber Industry in the British South Africa Company's Territories (1900) Volume 2: Agriculture: Food and Drink J H Harris, Cocoa Production in West Africa (1911); R A S Macdonald, Further Memorandum on the Economics of the Cattle Industry in Northern Rhodesia (1937); O T Faulkner, Stock-Breeding (1927); Agricultural Survey of the Existing and Potential Rice Lands in the Swamp Areas of the Little Scarcies, Great Scarcies, Port Loko and Rokel Rivers (1931); Report of the Fishery Officer on Certain Fishing Stations on the Coast of the Cape Province (1914); Tea in Uganda (1932); H H Mann, Report on Tea Cultivation and its Development in Nyasaland (1933); Report of Proceedings of Coffee Planters' Days and Coffee Conference (1932); Sheep in Kenya (1924); Sheep Farming in Natal, and Plan of Emigration as Proposed by the Natal Land and Colonization Company, Limited (1866); Report of the Committee of Enquiry into Certain Aspects of the Dairy and Pig Industries (1936); Kenya Pigs and Bacon (1924); G J L Burton, Wheat Growing in Kenya Colony (1925); E Harrison, Maize in Kenya (1926); I Tribolet, Report on the Possibilities of Tree Nut Culture in Nyasaland (1930); M Van Den Hoek and W J Pretorius, An Enquiry into the Factors of Production in the Citrus Industry of South Africa (1929); Special Agricultural Correspondent, 'Land Attractions of Kenya. Sugar Growing' (1925); Report of the Sugar Inquiry Commission (1922); W Lyne Watt, Green Manures, Shelter Belts and Cover Crops (1929) Volume 3: Agriculture: Miscellaneous Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Economic Position of the Agricultural Industry of Southern Rhodesia (1934); S Milligan, Report on the Present Position of the Agricultural Industry and the Necessity, or Otherwise, of Encouraging Further European Settlement in Agricultural Areas (1931); 'Does Farming Pay in South Africa?' ([early 1920s]); H H Lardner, The Agricultural Question; A Letter to his Excellency Samuel Rowe ... and How to Double the Revenue and Trade and Improve the Sanitary Condition of the West Africa Settlements (1880); J A Barbour James, The Agricultural and Industrial Possibilities of the Gold Coast (1911); M T Dawe, Report on the Agricultural Conditions and Needs of the Gambia (1921); A Holm, Review of Agriculture in Kenya (1926); R Clifton Grannum, Report of the Committee on Locust Menace Crop Insurance (1929); An Agricultural Credit System for Cape Colony (1907); Interim Report of the Agricultural Indebtedness Committee (1936). European Settlement: South African Settlers Information Committee, Land Settlement in South Africa. Settler and Farms (1916); Proposals for the Encouragement of Land Settlement and Immigration ([early 1910s]); J W Downie, Rhodesia: Development and Expansion, with Special Relation to Markets and Migration. Address ... and Report of Proceedings of the Committees of the Empire Parliamentary Association (1928); Northern Rhodesia Department of Lands, Land for Settlers (1925). Marketing of Produce: E J G Kelly, Report of a Committee appointed in Nigeria to Examine Recommendations made by the Commission on the Marketing of West African Cocoa (1939); R H Fraser, A Report on the Marketing of Northern Rhodesia Tobacco in Great Britain (1936); V Liversage, The Marketing of Potatoes (1932); Native Produce: Inspection and Marketing Services (1937) Volume 4: Mining F D P Chaplin, Address Delivered by ... President of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines at the Annual General Meeting of Members (1906); F H Hatch, The Past, Present and Future of the Gold-Mining Industry of the Witwatersrand, Transvaal (1911); Report of the Committee on Mining Legislation (1933); Sir A Geddes, Memorandum Prepared by Rhokana Corporation Limited on the Copper Mining Industry of Northern Rhodesia (1932); N R Junner, An Address ... on the Gold and other Mineral Resources of the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone (1933); Sir A E Kitson, The Gold Resources of the Gold Coast (1932); Nigeria Mines Department, Nigerian Minerals and Mining (1924); The Report of a Committee Appointed at a Meeting of Companies, Firms and Individuals Interested in the Production of Tin in Nigeria, and Convened by the Nigerian Chamber of Mines (Incorporated) (1933); Agreement for the Grant of a Licence for a Term of 99 years from the 1st July, 1933 for Diamond Mining in the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone (1934); D L Frew, Asbestos Mining in Rhodesia (1936); R C Wilson, Brown Coal in Nigeria (1924); G H Gethin Jones, Memorandum on the Lime Resources of Kenya Colony with Special Reference to Future Requirements and the Economy of Transportation (1932); F Dixey, Bauxite Deposits in Nyasaland (1925). Industry and Trade: Union of South Africa, Office of Census and Statistics, Report on the Engineering Industry of South Africa 1915/6 to 1923/4 (1924); Union of South Africa, Office of Census and Statistics, Printing and Publishing (1924); R N Kotze, Memorandum re Iron and Steel Industry (1909); H Jennings, The National Bank of South Africa Limited ... Monthly Trade Report (1921); Report on the Hides and Skins Industry of the Northern Provinces of Nigeria (1927); Hides and Skins Section of the Mombasa Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, A Memorandum on the Hide and Skin Trade in East Africa (1928); V Liversage, The Manufacture of Egg Products (1934); W J Megaw, Report on the Flax Industry in Kenya (1939); 'Trade in the Niger and Action of the French in that District' (1882-3); H F Gurney, Memorandum on Trade with the British Dependencies in West Africa (The Gambia, Sierra Leone, The Gold Coast and Nigeria) (1937). Banking: A Brief summary of the History of Banking in South Africa and An Outline of the History of the Netherlands Bank of South Africa (1938); Cape of Good Hope Government, Savings Bank Accounts for the Year ended 31 December 1881 (1881); A Walter, Analysis of Bank Statistics for British East Africa 1927 to 1931. Part. 1 - Kenya Colony and Protectorate (1932); Report of the Land and Agriculture Bank of Southern Rhodesia (1926); 'Banking in West Africa' (1926); Bank of British West Africa, Annual Report and Balance Sheet (1902); Bank of British West Africa, Annual Report and Balance Sheet (1935) Volume 5: Labour Supply Labour Problems in British East Africa: Evidence and Report from East African Protectorate, Native Labour Commission (1914); The London Secretary of the Transvaal Chamber of Mines, Notes on the Labour Position in the Transvaal ([c.1904]); Chinese Labour (1903); Native Labour in South Africa. A Report of a Public Meeting Jointly Convened by the Aborigines Protection Society and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society (1903); J E Barnes, The Economic Value of the Native Races of Africa in Relation to the Development of the Resources of that Continent (1908); The Industrialization of the African (1937); Report on Employment of Nigerian Labour in Fernando Poo (1939); L W Rich, An Outline of the Case of the British Indians in the Transvaal (1909); Indian Overseas Association, Indians in East Africa: Is the Segregation Policy to Prevail? Views of the Government of India ([early 1920s]). Working Conditions: Report on the Native Labour Census Taken on 15th January, 1930 (1930); Wage Act, 1925: Furniture Industry (Including Bedding-Making, Mattress-Making, and Upholstery) (1927); The Native in Industry (1929); Reports (1) of the Special Commissioner Appointed to Enquire into the Boycotting of Rand Storekeepers by Natives. (2) Of the Cost of Living Commission on the Investigation of Accounts of Mine Storekeepers on the Witwatersrand (1919); The Housing of African Natives on Farms and Estates (1926); The Recruitment, Employment and Care of Government Labour (1930). African Enterprises: Interest: Is It Just, or Not? A Letter Addressed to the Native Traders of West Africa (1889); C F Strickland, Report on the Introduction of Co-operative Societies into Nigeria (1934); H V Meyerowitz, A Report on the Possibilities of the Development of Village Crafts in Basutoland (1936). Miscellaneous Aspects of Development: W G B de Montmorency, The Commercial Possibilities of West Africa (1907); H N Carvalho, The Manufacturing Industries of the British Empire Overseas. Part VI: Africa, West, East and Central (1932); Nyasaland: A Description of the Country and its Resources (1924); A Walter, Index Numbers of Retail Prices of Commodities in Nairobi, 1924 to June 1930 (1930); Statistics and Intelligence Branch of the Empire Marketing Board, Production and Trade of the Gambia (1931); W M Leggate, Southern Rhodesia: Some Problems of Native Development and Trade (1929); Development Committee, Interim Report (1936)

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