Economic Development of Africa, 1880-1939 vol 1

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.

Volume 1 Agriculture: Non-Food and Drink General Introduction Bibliography 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, T e Cotton-Growing Industry in Uganda, Kenya, and the Mwanza District of Tanganyika (1925) J. S. Addison and H. C. Jef erys, Cotton Growing in Southern Africa and the Rhodesias (1927) 181S. 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, T e Future of Forestry in Uganda (1929) W. G. Leckie, T e 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) Economic Development of Africa, 1880-1939: Volume 1 P. Lyttelton Gell, T e Rubber Industry in the British South Africa Company's Territories (1900) Editorial Notes