Other Books Received
| Published date | 01 October 1968 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1968.tb00354.x |
| Date | 01 October 1968 |
Other Books Received
Africa
from
Early
Times
to
1800, Ed. P. J. M. McEwAN;Oxford Univer-
sity
Press,
1968; index
etc.;
pp. 436; 555•
Twentieth
Century
Mrica,
Ed. P. J. M. McEwAN; Oxford University
Press, 1968; maps, bibliography
and
index;
pp.
517; 50s.
The
editor has collated nearly
100
"readings"
on Africa, extracts
from
books
and
journal articles by a widely catholic choice of authors.
In
the first volume,
such
is
the
limited historical knowledge of Africa
South
of
the
Sahara,
that
the
well balanced material collected here provides an excellent broad
picture of
the
once
"dark
continent"
from pre-history to
1800.
To
the
general reader
much
of
interest well told, to
the
student
an invaluable background to stimulate
more
detailed reading, to
both
their
knowledge enhanced.
One
small
point:
the lofty
Kalambo
falls form
the
boundary
between Zambi.a
and
Tanzania
and
so are shared by
both
countries.
In
the
second volume,
the
twentieth
century
does
not
provide similar
scope.
Were
Africa to contain
ten
not
forty states, material of this
kind
could be useful
to
students:
as it is one
must
question
the
value of learning history by snippets -
the
danger of a veneer of knowledge lacking any real
depth
would seem too great.
The
New
States
of
Mrica,
by
ARNOLD
RIVKIN;
Foreign Policy Association,
New York; pp. 63; $0.85·
Writing
with wide knowledge
and
experience of Africa,
Dr.
Rivkin has achieved no
mean
feat in containing his
monograph
to so few pages. Aimed it would seem at
the
well educated American who may
not
be versed in African affairs,
and
perhaps
who
would
not
find time to delve deep into heavy volumes,
Dr.
Rivkin's enlightened,
liberal
pen
will serve a very useful purpose.
The
Commonwealth
Office
Year
Book, 1968;
H.M.S.O.,
London;
appendices, index,
map;
pp. 816; 655.
The
Library
Department
of
the
Commonwealth Office
and
H.M.S.O.
earn
high
commendation for
the
excellent
production
of this major Source
of
up-to-date
informa-
tion
about
the
countries
of
the
Commonwealth.
The
"vital
statistics" of every
member
nation overseas, dependencies and
the
associated states, are provided together with
much
other
useful data about the
Common-
wealth Secretariat and
other
bodies, trade statistics and items
of
general knowledge.
68
Catalogue
of
Social
and
Economic
Development
Training
Institutes
and
Programmes;
O.E.C.D. Development Centre, Paris;
pp. 343; £1 I IS.
O.E.C.D.
has provided avaluable handbook on training facilities available to
students
from
developing countries in
the
fields of economic
and
social
development;
included
are references to 93 Institutes
~nd
143 specialised programmes available in 25 countries
and
IS international orgarusations.
Politics
of
Colonial
Policy,
The
Board
of
Trade
in
Colonial
Admini-
stration
1696-1720, by 1. K.
STEELE;
Clarendon Press; Oxford University
Press, 1968; appendices, bibliography, index;
pp.
217; 485.
How
did colonial administration originally get
going?
What
did
"Whitehall"
do in
the
early
days?
How
was a new go.vernment
department
affected by
the
Royal Prerogative
and
by the emergence of a
Cabinet
system?
Professor Steele in his admirable
study
of
the Board of
Trade
?ver a turl;lUle?t
quart~r
century of British history covering
much
of
three
reigns provides afascinating and Informative reply.
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