Economic Development: Africa, Mining and Transport, 1933-1963
File
Shelfmark: MSS. Perham 717
Held at the Weston Library
Contains:
- folder 1 (fols. 1-43) Economic development in Africa, 1933-1938: papers given to Margery Perham by I.M.J. of Chatham House and Lugard, including minutes of an Africa Circle meeting, 3 May 1933 (fols. 1-11, 27-43); a letter to her from Hilda Matheson on co-operation in Africa, Nov 1933 (fols. 12-13); and script of a broadcast by I.L. Evans on 'British Rule in Africa, Economic Development', 1934 (fols. 14-26)
- folder 2 (fols. 1-40 and items 1-4) miscellaneous papers on economic development in Africa, 1942-1963, including: 'Mining in the British African Colonies' by W. Arthur Lewis, 1942 (fols. 1-4); 'The Economic Development of Africa', address by Sir Alan Pim to the Anti-Slavery Society, 15 Jun 1944 (item 1); script of a broadcast on the subject by W.E. Stanner, 14 Jun 1949 (fols. 5-12); 'Some Aspects of Investment and Economic Development in the Continent of Africa' by S. Herbert Frankel, Oxford University Institute of Colonial Studies Reprint Series No. 3 (item 2); 'The Problems of the African Trader' by Hugh Fearn (fols. 13-19); 'A Political Scientist in Africa', Professor Gwendoline Carter's Presidential Address to the African Studies Association, Boston, 1959 (fols. 20-40); 'Nile and Niger, Two Agricultural Projects' by A.H. Hanson, Public Administration, winter 1960 (item 3); and 'African Attitudes to the European Economic Community' by Ali Mazrui, International Affairs, Vol. 39, No. 1, Jan 1963
- folder 3 (unfoliated) economic development in Africa, press cuttings, 1942-1962
- folder 4 (fols. 1-13) mining policy; statements by Arthur Creech Jones and the Fabian Colonial Bureau on colonial mining policy, and a memorandum to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by the British Overseas Mining Association in 1946, 1942-1946
- folder 5 (unfoliated) mining, press cuttings, 1946-1960
- folder 6 (fols. 1-28) 'The Roads as Economic Assets' by D.L. Munby, typescript, c. 1959
- folder 7 (unfoliated) transport and communications, press cuttings, 1942-1951.
Dates
- Creation: 1933-1963
Extent
7 items
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MSS. Perham 717
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
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Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk