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| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1965.tb00658.x |
| Date | 01 October 1965 |
| Published date | 01 October 1965 |
oT11 F R B U () K S R F c1';[ VuD
AFRICA:"A
BULLETIN
(No.
I,
1964.). Uuicersity lif
IVarsaw,
Poland;
pp. 2 I 2
(mimeographed).
The
first issue of
what
will be a
regular
bulletin published by the
Centre
for African Studies at
Warsaw University. It
contains
six articles
and
a
number
of short
notes
on various African
topics,
and
asurprisingly long list
ofworks
by Polish
authors
on
matters
connected
with Africa.
REVIEW
OF
COLONIAL
RESEARCH
I
!J.!.O-19(io,
edited
by Sir Charles Jcfferies.
1I.M.S.U.,
Landon,
1964.;
pp. '238;
'2IS.
The
Editor
of this
major
record of British Colonial Research divides his Review
into
two parts.
In the first, after providing the historical
background
in which, based on Kcw, the eighteenth
century
saw the first tentative beginnings of botanical research e\ olvc,
then
recording the modest
advances of the next 150 years, culminates in the passage of the first Colonial
Development
and
ｾｖ･ｬｦ｡ｲ･
Act by the British
Parliament
-almost an
act
of
faith
in the
grim
month
of
July,
19-1:0.
I'hc
Editor
proceeds to review the progress
made
over
the
next
two decades
and
the practical
achievements of the research
undertaken
in
many
varied
fields.
The
second
part
of the Review
Contains Special
Reports
on research projects in the spheres of
National
Resources, Social
Services
and
Public Works - the subjects
range
from
agriculture
to local customs,
and
from
medicine to languages.
Lord
Hailey
contributes aForeword in which he draws
attention
to a significant feature of
the Review:
"the
operations of which it presents arecord form, in fact, an integral feature of the
story of
that
radical
change
in
the
British outlook on
the
welfare of the Colonial peoples which
began to manifest itself
during
the
period
intervening between the First
and
Second World
Wars".
\Ve all know
that
Lord
Hailey was largely responsible for the radical
change
to which
he refers.
A
number
ofvaluablc
appendices
arc
included
which list the
membership
of Colonial Research
Councils
and
Committees 1912-59
and
abibliography of
Research
Reports
published by
H.M.S.a.
Finally a
map
of the world clearly illustrates the vast scope of the research
recorded
in this Review.
GEOGRAPHERS
A"'D
THE
TROPICS:
LIVERPOOL
ESSAYS,
edited
by R.
,,y.
Steel
and
R.
!vI.
Prothero. Lougmans
Green
&Co. u«,
London,
19
64 ;
pp.
357;
4-7s.
6d.
These essays represent the
range
of geographers' interests in tropical countries,
and
include
contributions on
landform
evolution, rainfall analysis, settlement history,
land
usc
patterns
and
population
mobility.
THE
EXPANSION
OF
WORLD
TRADE,
edited by Dennis
Thompson.
Britisli Institute
(if International and
Comparative
Law,
London,
1965;
pp.
81;
17s. 6d.
This
is
the
report
of
aconference held
under
the auspices
of
the British
Institute
at Ditchlcy
Park
in
July,
1964. Papers were
read
on the
European
Economic
Community,
the
Kennedy
Round,
Commonwealth
preference,
and
co-operation between developing countries.
A
GRAMMAR
OF
TilE
KOLOKlJMA
DIALECT
OF
[.10,
by
Kay
Williamson.
Cambridge
Uuiccrsity
Press
(in
association
with the Institute
if
African Studies,
[barlan),
London,
1965;
pp.
127; 18s.
The
second in the West African
Language
Monograph
series. issued in connection with the
Journal
of
lVest African Languages.
This
is the
author's
Ph.D. thesis at Yale University.
COMMERCIAL
ACCOUNTING,
by R. H. S. Beacham.
Uniucrsiiy
of
London
Press
Ltd.,
19
64 ;
pp.
447;
25s•
The
author
says
that
commercial
accounting
"sees the business
undertaking
as an economic
rather
than
as a legal
unit".
His book will Lc
ofvaluc
to all
branches
of the
accounting
profession
ami
financial administrators.
PUBLIC
RELATIONS
IN BUSINESS
MANAt:EMENT,
hy
Jamcs
Derriman.
University
rif
London
Press,
1964; pp. 238; 18s.
This is the lirst
handbook
on this subject
written
specifically for directors
and
managers of
British companies.
It
explains the role of
'P.R.'
in all aspects
of
business.
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