Communications in Africa, 1880–1939, Volume 2

AvDavid Sunderland

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This collection presents rare documents relating to the development of various forms of communication across Africa by the British, as part of their economic investment in Africa. Railways and waterways are examined.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-05-31
Mått:156 x 234 x 34 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:416
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138117310

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Innehållsförteckning

I: Construction; 1: Crown Agents to Colonial Office (23 August 1897); held at the National Archives, CO 879/49/2, No. 190.; 2: Sierra Leone (Kwalu) Railway Survey. Report of Messrs Shelfordand Son (15 November 1899); held at the National Archives, CO 879/61/612.; 3: High Commissioner Sir F. Lugard to Mr. Chamberlain (25 February 1903); held at the National Archives, CO 879/76/695, No. 41.; 4: Papers [August 10, 1893 to August 12, 1904] relating to Construction of Foreign Railways in West Africa (London: printed for the use of the Colonial Office, 1905); held at the National Archives, CO 879/86/3.; 5: Mr. Lyttelton to Governor Egerton (6 January 1905); held at the National Archives, CO 879/76/695.; 6: Memorandum by Mr. Churchill on Railway Construction in Nigeria (1906); held at the National Archives, CO 879/93/5.; 7: F. Shelford, Some Features of West African Railways , ed. J. H. T. Tudsbery (London: Institution of Civil Engineers, 1912).; 8: The Nigerian Railway. Some General Particulars, a Short Historical Sketch and Interesting Statistics (Lagos, [1925]).; 9: Sir W. De Frece, The Failure of Officialdom (London, 1923); held at LSE, HE 1(6)/3.; 10: F. L. O’ Callaghan, ‘Uganda Railway’, 26:8 (1900), Professional Papers of the Corps of Royal Engineers. (OccasionalPaper Series ), pp. 1–20.; 11: F. W. Emett, ‘Some Curiosities of the Uganda Railway’, Wide World Magazine (April 1901), pp. 26–35.; 12: Memorandum for the Private Enterprise Committee by the Hon. Gideon Murray, Master of Elibank [n.d.]; held at the National Archives CO 766/1.; 13: E. H. Smith Wright, Railways in Rhodesia. A Few Notes on their Construction and on the Country through which they Pass (London, 1904).; 14: ‘Contract for the Construction of a Railway and Works in the British Central Africa Protectorate, dated 1897’, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute , 55 (1925), pp. 439–67.; 15: Central Africa Railway Company Limited and Shire Highlands Railway Nyasaland Limited and the Crown Agents for the Colonies on behalf of the Nyasaland Government: Conditional Agreement (1930); held at the National Archives, CO 525/139/2.; 16: A. G. Dalton, A Report and Estimate Concerning the Construction and Equipment of a Railway between Oudtshoorn andKlipplaat Station via Willowmore with Full Details (Cape Town, 1894).; 17: G. S. Owen, Report and Estimate in Connection with Caledon Surveys, with a View to the Construction of a Line of Railway (Cape Town: Government Printer, 1897).; 18: Railway Construction: ZoutpansbergDistrict (Pretoria: Government Printer, 1909).; 19: Tanganyika Territory. Proposed Loan for Railway and Harbour Development, 1923–4 (London: printed for the use of the Colonial Office, 1924); held at the National Archives, CO 879/121/3.; 20: Natal Government Railways. Draft Law to Raise a Loan for the Construction and Equipment of Certain Railways [n.d.]; held at the National Archives, CO 879/7/19.; 21: Report of the Select Committee on Railway Labourers (Cape Town: Saul Solomon & Co., 1863).; 22: A. R. Seymour, ‘Tropical Railways’, unpublished manuscript, © A. R. Seymour Estate; held at Rhodes House, Bodleian Library, Oxford, MSS. Afr. r. 213.; 23: E. R. Calthrop, ‘Light Railways in the Colonies’, Royal Colonial Institute Proceedings , 29 (1897–8), pp. 98–103.