David Sunderland

Communications in Africa, 1880-1939, Volume 1

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 154mm x 233mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781032099187
• ISBN-10: 1032099186
• Artikelnr.: 62139744

Autorenporträt

David Sunderland

Inhaltsangabe

Proposals; Part 2
Nos 1 and 2. Messrs Fitzgerald and Mercer to Colonial Office (23 June 1879) and Colonial Office to Messrs Fitzgerald and Mercer (11 July 1879); held at the National Archives
CO 879/38/451.; Reports on Inspections Made to Ascertain the Best Lines of Possible Railway Extension in the Colony. No. 1
Possible Extensions of the Western and Midland Systems (Cape Town: Department of Crown Lands and Public Works
1879).; 3: Correspondence having Reference to Construction of Railways in Territory of Bechuanaland (Cape Town: Government Printer
1889).; 4: Railway Extension through British Bechuanaland (Cape Town: Government Printer
1890).; 5: E. L. Bentley
Handbook to the Uganda Question and Proposed East Africa Railway (London: Chapman & Hall
1892).; 6: The Railway Extension from Charlestown to Johannesburg. Copy of Agreements dated 3rd and 12th February and 25th April
1894 between the Governments of the Colony of Natal and the South African Republic (Durban: T. L. Cullingworth
1894).; 7: Memorandum on the Question of the Delagoa Bay Railway (printed for the use of the Colonial Office
1896); held at the National Archives
CO 879/56/2.; 8: F. Cardew
Railway Schemes for the Colony of Sierra Leone. An Address before the African Trade Section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
2 August 1895 (Liverpool: Chamber of Commerce
1895).; 9: The Beira Railway. Report of Proceedings of the Various Meetings held in Salisbury
Rhodesia
on the above Question (London: printed on behalf of the Beira Railway Extension Committee
Salisbury
Rhodesia
1895).; Wassau (Gold Coast) Mining Coompany
Limited
to Colonial Office (19 August 1897); held at the National Archives
CO 879/49/2
No. 185a.; C. S. Betton
'Prospective Railway Development in British Equatorial Africa'
Journal of the Society of Arts (4 July 1902)
pp. 684-90.; 12: Informal Conference with Mr. F. Bedford Glasier
on the Subject of the Lagos Railway
held at the Exchange Station Hotel
on Monday
April 27th
1903
African Trade Section of the Incorporated Chamber of Commerce (Liverpool: C. Tinling & Co. printers
1903).; 13: The Right Railway System and the Best Outlets for Nigeria (London: Marsden & Co. Ltd
1906).; 14: Report on Transport Policy to Develop the Northern Provinces of Northern Nigeria (printed for the use of the Colonial Office
1912); held at the National Archives
CO 879/110/2.; 15: Transport in Africa. East African Commission's Recommendations
British Cotton Growing Association Publications Series
90 (Manchester: British Cotton Growing Association
1925).; E. Grigg
Memorandum on Railway Development (Nairobi:Government Printer
1926).