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Colonial States and African Societies

History Seminar 248S/448A
Winter 2006-2007
Professor Richard Roberts

 

Newspapers

  1. at Hoover. See Newspaper Card Catalog. (Hoover Open M-F, 8-5)
  2. in CAMP/CRL catalog and AFRINUL

 

House of Commons. Parliamentary Papers

 

British Colonies - Blue Books

  1. Use the country name as Author in Socrates
  2. Gold Coast as author. Blue Book as title. Be sure Book is singular.
  3. The Blue Books for various countries contain statistics, population, facts on
    colonial employees & their salaries, agriculture, education, transport, imports and exports,
    criminal statistics, hospitals, health, church missions, laws passed, expenditures and revenue,
    postage rates, land registration fees, average prices, average wages, etc.
  4. The 1919 Nigeria Blue Book, for example, reveals that over 208,000 boys
    were enrolled in Northern Nigerian schools,while no girls were enrolled.
    However, over 4,000 girls were enrolled in Southern Nigerian schools.
  5. CAMP / CRL and UC Berkeley have Blue Books. In Berkeley’s catalog,
    you must search, Blue book, under Journal Title

 

CAMP - Blue Books, Annual Reports, Censuses, Legislative Proceedings, Official Gazettes, Financial Reports, Statistics, Laws, etc. on Microfilm

  • Available on interlibrary loan from CAMP. Detailed contents lists for Basutoland, Gambia, Gold Coast & British Togoland, Kenya & East African High Commission, Nigeria & British Cameroons, Nyasaland, Sierra Leone, Southern Rhodesia, Uganda. Borrow through Green Library Interlibrary Loan.

British Commonwealth History Microform Collections

Microform collections covering the 12th to 20th century in the Stanford Libraries. From Benjamin Stone, Curator, British History. See descriptions of -

Africa Through Western Eyes: Manuscript Records of Traders, Travellers, Soldiers, Missionaries and Diplomats in Africa.
Colonial Discourses: Series One: Women, Travel, & Empire, 1660-1914.
Colonial Discourses. Series Two, Imperial Adventurers and Explorers.
Empire and commonwealth [microform] : archives of the Royal Commonwealth Society from Cambridge University Library. Pt. 1. The colour question in imperial policy, c1830-1939 -- [Pt. 2. Imperial and commonwealth conferences, 1835-1955].

 

British Documents on Foreign Affairs

Reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part I, From the mid-nineteenth century to the First World War. Part II, From the First to the Second World War.

 

Africa: Confidential Prints. c. 1867 - 1929

[Reels 53-59, and 71-30 missing]

Print Inventories -

In Hoover Library - Africa : confidential prints : an inventory. (6 v.)
Hoover Library DT32 .A258 index

and
In Green Library
Title: Africa : confidential prints. Physical Description: v. ; 28 cm. Note: "An inventory of a collection of microfilmed documents from the archives of the British Colonial Office and the British Foreign Office, pertaining to Africa ... made at the Public Record Office of Great Britain." Note: Typescript (photocopy). Incomplete contents: [v. 1] reel 1-46 -- [v. 2] reel 47-107 -- [v. 3] reel 108-141.
GREEN CALL NUMBER Z3509 .A47 1964 V.1-3 SSRC
and
Online - Vol. 1. Inventory (in pdf). Vol. 2 Inventory (in pdf)

    Title: Africa : confidential prints [microform]: a collection
    of documents from the British Colonial Office and the
    British Foreign Office.
    Physical Description: 161 microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm. + Keyword
    Index
    Note: Table of contents listed in: Africa : confidential
    prints : an inventory. (6 v. ; 24 x 28 cm.) 
Hoover Library DT32 .A258 index
Summary: The records consist of the confidential prints relating to Africa. The confidential print is a collection of selected correspondence, memoranda and other documents originally printed between 1870 and 1922 for internal use by the Colonial and Foreign Offices, and in some cases, for distribution to missions or other government bodies. Subject (LC): Africa--History--Sources. Subject (LC): Africa--Foreign relations--Great Britain--Sources. ubject (LC): Great Britain--Foreign relations--Africa--Sources. Subject (LC): Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--History--Sources. Organization: Great Britain. Colonial Office. rganization: Great Britain. Foreign Office. HOOVER--Location: STACKS copy 1 Library has: reels 1-52,60-161 Index: "Keyword Index" 1v. HOOVER CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION DT32 .A258 KEYWORD INDEX 1 STACKS 2)DT32 .A258 MFILM 1 MICROFILM

 

Missionary Archives

  1. at Stanford University plus elsewhere
  2. outside – UC Berkeley and Graduate Theological Union Library , CAMP catalog, etc.
    Church Missionary Society Archive (19th c. to early 20th c. records on film).

 

It’s Not in Socrates

  1. some Hoover Library materials (pamphlets, Sudan Notes & Records, etc.)
  2. books only listed under the Series entry
  3. http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/socrates.pdf

 

Selected Primary Sources

East Africa

                 Author: Gregory, Robert G.
                 Title: A guide to the Kenya National Archives : to the
                        microfilms of the provincial and district annual
                        reports, record books, and handing-over reports,
                        miscellaneous correspondence, and intelligence reports
                        / by Robert G. Gregory, Robert M. Maxon, and Leon P.
                        Spencer.
                 Imprint: Syracuse, N.Y. : Program of Eastern African Studies,
                        Syracuse University, 1968, c1969.
                 Physical Description: xvi, 452 p. ; 24 cm.
                 Series: (Syracuse University. Eastern African bibliographical
                        series, no. 3)
                 Subject (LC): Kenya National Archives--Microform catalogs.
                 Subject (LC): Kenya--History--Sources--Bibliography--Microform
                 catalogs.
                 Series: Syracuse University Eastern African bibliographical
                 series ; no. 3
                 The Hoover copy has a reel guide in back.
                 HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
                 CD2355 .K4 A2 S95                              1   REFERENCE   
                ***

                Organization: Kenya.
                Title: Annual reports, 1904-1963 [microform].
                Imprint: Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
                Physical Description: 63 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
                Note: Consists of annual and quarterly reports of
                        administrative units from sub-districts and above.
                Subject (LC): Kenya--History--1895-1963--Sources.
        
                HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
                CD2355 .K4 A21                             1   MICROFILM   
               ***
               Organization: Kenya.
               Title: Handing over reports, 1910-1963 [microform].
               Imprint: Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
               Physical Description: 14 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
               Note: Consists of reports made from the various districts
                        and provinces, arranged by area.
               Subject (LC): Kenya--History--1895-1963--Sources.
             
               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               CD2355.K4 A23                               1   MICROFILM


               ***
               Organization: Kenya.
               Title: Intelligence reports, 1921-1951 [microform].
               Imprint: Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
               Physical Description: 12 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
               Note: Contains reports of commissioners and administrators,
                        normally issued monthly.
               Subject (LC): Kenya--History--1895-1963--Sources.
               Organization: Kenya National Archives.
               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               CD2355.K4 A25                                1   MICROFILM


               ***
               Organization: Kenya.
               Title: Miscellaneous correspondence, 1894-1961 [microform]
               Imprint: Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
               Physical Description: 10 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
               Note: Consists of reports and circulars, as well as
                        correspondence, on a wide variety of topics.
               Subject (LC): Kenya--History--1895-1963--Sources.
               Organization: Kenya National Archives.
              
               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               CD2355.K4 A24                                1   MICROFILM


               ***  
               Organization: Kenya.
               Title: Provincial and district record books, 1902-1958
               [microform].
               Imprint: Nairobi : Kenya Government Photographic Service, 1965.
               Physical Description: 18 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
               Note: Consists of material originally intended as a
                        collection of data and source of information for
                        colonial officials.
               Note: First 16 reels described in A Guide to the Kenya
                        National Archives / by Robert G. Gregory ... [et al.].
               Subject (LC): Kenya--History--1895-1963--Sources.
               Subject (LC): Kenya--History, Local--Sources.
               Organization: Kenya National Archives.
    
               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               CD2355 .K4 A22 MFILM REEL 18                   1   MICROFILM
               ***


Organization: Kenya. Legislative Council. Title: Debates; official report.
Imprint: Nairobi. Superseded by: Kenya. National Assembly. Official report 1963 HOOVER--Location: STACKS Library has: 1907-37; 2. ser. 1-91, 1937-63// HOOVER CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION G.D. KENYA 1 STACKS
               ***


               Organization: Great Britain. Colonial Office.
               Title: East African pamphlets.
               Physical Description: 14 reels. 35 mm.
               Note: Microfilm copy made by Recordak Microfilm Service,
               London, 1963.
               Note: For calendar see Great Britain. Colonial Office.
               Inventory of materials dealing with East Africa.
               Z3516.G786 f
               Subject (LC): Africa, East--History.
               Subject (LC): Great Britain--Colonies--Africa, East.
       
               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               DT421.G7                                        1   STACKS 
(Covers 1880 - 1958 and Ethiopia/Somalia in the North, Zaire
in the East to Zambia, Malawi in the South.)

Tanganyika.
[Provincial and district books]
Dar es Salaam, Printed by the Govt. Printer. 27 reels
Microfilm copy (positive) of typescript and longhand made by the Library Unit of University College Dar es Salaam.
Hoover Library Microfilm DT449.A1A3

There is no inventory, but see Nassor, Muhammed H., Guide to the Provincial (Regional) and District Commissioners' Annual Reports. National Archives of Tanzania, 1977. 56 p.
Hoover Library Stack CD2487.N38


Organization: Tanganyika. Legislative Council. Title: Council debates; official report.
Imprint: Dar-es-Salaam, Government Printer. Note: Title varies slightly. Superseded by: Tanganyika. National Assembly. Parliamentary debates; official report 1962 [Green has scattered years 1962-1964] SAL--Location: SAL-PAGE copy 1 Library has: 6th sess:v.1(1932),11th sess:v.2(1936/1937), 13th sess:v.1(1938/1939),14th sess:v.1(1939/1940), 15th sess(1940/1941),16th sess:v.1-2(1941/1942), 17th sess:v.1-2(1942/1943),20th sess:v.3-5(1945/1946), 25th sess(1950/1951)-36th sess(1961) SAL CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION 1)J801 .A11 6TH SESS:1932:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 2)J801 .A11 11TH SESS:1936/37:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 3)J801 .A11 13TH SESS:1938/39:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 4)J801 .A11 14TH SESS:1939/40:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 5)J801 .A11 15TH SESS:1940/41 1 SAL-PAGE 6)J801 .A11 16TH SESS:1941/42:V.1-2 1 SAL-PAGE 7)J801 .A11 17TH SESS:1942/43:V.1-2 1 SAL-PAGE 8)J801 .A11 20TH SESS:1945/46:V.3-5 1 SAL-PAGE 9)J801 .A11 25TH SESS:1950/51:V.3-4 1 SAL-PAGE 10)J801 .A11 26TH SESS:1951:V.1-2 1 SAL-PAGE 11)J801 .A11 26TH SESS:1952:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 12)J801 .A11 26TH SESS:1952:V.5 1 SAL-PAGE 13)J801 .A11 27TH SESS:1952/53:V.1-2 1 SAL-PAGE 14)J801 .A11 27TH SESS:1952/53:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 15)J801 .A11 27TH SESS:1953:V.4 1 SAL-PAGE 16)J801 .A11 27TH SESS:1953:V.5 1 SAL-PAGE 17)J801 .A11 28TH SESS:1953/54:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 18)J801 .A11 29TH SESS:1954/55:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 19)J801 .A11 29TH SESS:1954/55:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 20)J801 .A11 29TH SESS:1954/55:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 21)J801 .A11 30TH SESS:1955/56:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 22)J801 .A11 30TH SESS:1955/56:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 23)J801 .A11 30TH SESS:1955/56:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 24)J801 .A11 31ST SESS:1956/57:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 25)J801 .A11 31ST SESS:1956/57:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 26)J801 .A11 31ST SESS:1956/57:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 27)J801 .A11 32ND SESS:1957 1 SAL-PAGE 28)J801 .A11 33RD SESS:1957/58:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 29)J801 .A11 33RD SESS:1957/58:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 30)J801 .A11 33RD SESS:1957/58:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 31)J801 .A11 33RD SESS:1957/58:V.4 1 SAL-PAGE 32)J801 .A11 34TH SESS:1958/59:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 33)J801 .A11 34TH SESS:1958/59:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 34)J801 .A11 34TH SESS:1958/59:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 35)J801 .A11 34TH SESS:1958/59:V.4 1 SAL-PAGE 36)J801 .A11 35TH SESS:1959:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 37)J801 .A11 35TH SESS:1959:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 38)J801 .A11 35TH SESS:1960:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 39)J801 .A11 35TH SESS:1960:V.4 1 SAL-PAGE 40)J801 .A11 36TH SESS:1960:V.1 1 SAL-PAGE 41)J801 .A11 36TH SESS:1961:V.2 1 SAL-PAGE 42)J801 .A11 36TH SESS:1961:V.3 1 SAL-PAGE 43)J801 .A11 36TH SESS:1961:V.4 1 SAL-PAGE 44)J801 .A11 36TH SESS:1961:V.5 1 SAL-PAGE 45)J801 .A11 36TH SESS:1961:V.6 1 SAL-PAGE HOOVER CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION 46)J801 .A11 25TH SESS:1950/51:V.1-2 1 STACKS 47)J801 .A11 28TH SESS:1953/54:V.2 1 STACKS

 

Central Africa

  1. British South Africa Company. As author. 52 titles. Northern and Southern Rhodesia

                 
                 Organization: British South Africa Company.
Title: Report of the ... ordinary general meeting [microform].

Imprint: [London] : British South Africa Company, [1900?-
GREEN--Location: MEDIA-MTXT copy 1   
Library has: 5th(1898)-8th(1903),18th(1913),22nd(1918)-24th(1920)
                   GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION
MFILM N.S. 16673                           1   MEDIA-MTXT              
                
                   Organization: British South Africa Company.
                   Title: Reports on the administration of Rhodesia.
                   Imprint: London.
                   HOOVER--Location: STACKS    
                   Library has: 1900-02
                   HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
                   S.P. GT. BRIT.                             1   STACKS
                                 
                 Organization: British South Africa Company. Title: Directors' report and accounts [microform]
                  Imprint: [London] : British South Africa Company, [1892-
  GREEN--Location: MEDIA-MTXT copy 1   
Library has: 1891-1897/1898,1899/1900,1901/1902,1912-1919
GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION
MFILM N.S. 16673                            1   MEDIA-MTXT 
                   Organization: Zimbabwe. Parliament.
                   Title: Parliamentary debates / Zimbabwe.
                   Imprint: [Causeway, Harare] : Printed by order of Parliament,
                   Physical Description: v. ; 21 cm.
                   Current frequency: Irregular
                   Volume/date range: Began with v. 17 in 1990.
                   Note: At head of title: Official report unrevised.
                   Notes: Formed by the union of: Zimbabwe.  Parliament.  House
                        of Assembly.  Parliamentary debates, and: Zimbabwe. 
                        Parliament.  Senate. Parliamentary debates.
                   Subject (LC): Zimbabwe--Politics and government--1980-
        
                   Location: SAL-PAGE copy 1    
                   Library has: [v.23(1996)-v.25(1998),v.30(2003)-v.33(2005)]
                   
HOOVER-- Location: STACKS copy 1 Library has: v.17(1990/1991)

      2. Northern Rhodesia.

               Organization: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Council.
               Title: Legislative Council debates.
               Imprint: Livingstone : Gov. Printer,
               Physical Description: v. ; 26 cm.
               Note: Description based on: Sixth session of the second
                        council (Feb. 28th-Mar. 26th, 1929)
               Note: Latest issue consulted:  Third session (resumed) of
                        the ninth council, 9th June-6th July, 1951 (no. 71).
                 
               Subject (LC): Zambia--Politics and government.
               Continued by: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Council. Official
                        verbatim report of the debates of the ... session of
                        the ... Legislative Council.
               GREEN--Location: STACKS copy 1    
               Library has: no.69(1950:Aug.31-Sept. 16)-no.71(1951:June 9-July 6)


               GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION 
               J725.3 .H22 NO.69-71 1950:AUG.-1951:JU     1   STACKS  
               ***


               Organization: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Council.
               Title: Official verbatim report of the debates.
               Imprint: Lusaka : Government Printer,
               Physical Description: v. ; 25 cm.
               Note: Called also Hansard no.
               Subject (LC): Zambia--Politics and government
               Organization: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Council. Hansard.
               Continues: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Council. Legislative
                        Council debates
               Continued by: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Assembly. Official
                        verbatim report of the debates
               HOOVER--
               Location: STACKS    
               Library has: no.90 (1956:Nov./Dec.)-no.109 (1963:Nov.5/Dec.11)


               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               G.D. RHODESIA, NORTHERN                    1   STACKS


               ***


               Organization: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Assembly.
               Title: Official verbatim report of the debates.
               Imprint: Lusaka : Government Printer,
               Physical Description: v. ; 26 cm.
               Volume/date range: 1st Legislative Assembly 1st session; Mar. 10/20-July
                        9/Aug. 27, 1964.
               Note: Called also Hansard no. 1-3.
               Subject (LC): Zambia--Politics and government
               Organization: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Assembly. Hansard
               Continues: Northern Rhodesia. Legislative Council. Official
                        verbatim report of the debates
               Continued by: Zambia. National Assembly. Official verbatim report of
                        the parliamentary debates (OCOLC) 2218576
               HOOVER--Location: STACKS    
               Library has: no.1 (1964:Mar.10/20)-no.4 (1964:Sept.22/Oct.1)//


               HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
               G.D. RHODESIA, NORTHERN                    1   STACKS 

 

Congo

Author: Ridsdale, Philip, 1916-2000.
Title: Congo Mission archives [microform] : the papers of
Bishop Ridsdale (1916-2000) : missionary to the
Eastern Congo, from the Henry Martyn Centre,Cambridge.
Related e-resource: Digital version of guide. General Description. Imprint: Marlborough, Wiltshire, England : Adam Matthew Publications, 2006. Physical Description: 6 microfilm reels : ill. ; 35 mm Note: Reel 1 includes a guide to reel contents. Notes: Guide is also available in digital form from the Adam Matthew Publications Web site. Notes: Documents chiefly in English, with some in French and Swahili. Subject (LC): Church of England--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th century--Sources. Subject (LC): Church of England--Congo (Democratic Republic)--History--20th century--Sources. GREEN--Location: STACKS copy 1 Library has: reel 1-6 GREEN CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION 1)MFILM N.S. 16576 1 MEDIA-MTXT Organization: Shaba (Zaire). Archives. Title: [Documents found in the archives of the Region of Shaba of the Republic of Zaire]. Imprint: [Shaba, Zaire : Thomas Q. Reefe, 1972?]. Physical Description: 6 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. + Prospectus (4 leaves : map ; 28 cm.) Note: "Contains copies of over 350 documents ... written by Belgian administrators ... from 1906 to the 1950's. The microfilms were made as part of a Ph. D. dissertation research project into ... the Luba empire ... centered in the present-day administrative district of the Sous-region du Haut Lomami..."--Prospectus, p. [1]. Subject (LC): Comité spécial du Katanga--History--Sources. Subject (LC): Luba (African people)--History--Sources. Subject (LC): Katanga (Congo)--History--Sources. HOOVER--Location: MICROFILM Library has: 6 microfilm reels HOOVER CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION 1)DT665.K3 A15 MFILM 1 MICROFILM 2)DT665.K3 A15 PROSPECTUS 1 STACKS
Title: Congo Missionary Messenger HOOVER--Location: STACKS copy 1 Library has: 1929-1937,1940-1946,1956-1962 HOOVER CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION 1)SERIAL:USA 1929-1937 1 STACKS 2)SERIAL:USA 1940-1944 1 STACKS 3)SERIAL:USA 1945-1946 1 STACKS 4)SERIAL:USA 1956-1959 1 STACKS 5)SERIAL:USA 1960-1962 1 STACKS
Title: Zaire church news.
Former title: Congo mission news 1912-June 1970
Former title: Congo church news July 1970-Sept. 1971
Imprint: Kinshasa.
Volume/date range: no. 1-    ; Nov. 1912-
Notes: Issued 1912-    by the Church of Christ in Zaire
(called 1912-Mar. 1970, Congo Protestant Council; Apr.
1970-Sept. 1971, Church of Christ in Congo)
Subject (LC): Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Subject (LC): Protestant churches--Congo (Democratic Republic)
Organization: Congo Protestant Council.
GREEN--Location: STACKS copy 1    
Library has: [1-234, 1912-72]
GREEN CALL NUMBER BV3625 .C6 C6 

 

Lusophone Africa

    Chilcote, Ronald H.
    Emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa:
    documentary ephemera from its inception through 1965, i.e. 1966
    .
    15 reels. Documents in Portuguese, English, French.
    Microfilm made by University of California, Riverside.
    Hoover Library Microfilm DT36.C536

    Chilcote, Ronald H.
    Emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa : a bibliography of documentary ephemera through 1965
    Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, [1969]
    114 p. ; 27 cm. Series: (Hoover Institution bibliographical series ; 39)
    Subject (LC): Nationalism--Africa--Bibliography.
    Subject (LC): Portugal--Colonies--Africa--Bibliography.
    Subject (LC): Africa, Portuguese-speaking--Bibliography.
    Green Library Stacks Z2000 .S7 V.39
    Green Library Stacks Copy 2 Z3871 .C5
    SAL Z3875 .C535
    HOOVER Reference Room D509 .H789 V.39

    Author: Chilcote, Ronald H.
    Title: Emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa documentary
           ephemera through 1965 [i.e. 1966] collection of Ronald
           H. Chilcote [inventory of 15 reels of microfilm]
    Imprint: [Riverside, Calif., 1968.]
    Physical Description: 4 leaves 28 cm.
    
    SAL CALL NUMBER                               COPY  LOCATION 
       DT36 .C536 INDEX                           3   SAL-PAGE    
    
    HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
       2)DT36 .C536 INDEX                           1   STACKS      
                                                    2   STACKS
    ISBN: 0817919716
    Author: Chilcote, Ronald H.
    Title: Emerging nationalism in Portuguese Africa: documents
    Imprint: Stanford, Calif., Hoover Institution Press, Stanford
             University [1972]
    Physical Description: lxvi, 646 p. tables, maps 29 cm.
    Series: (Hoover Institution publications ; 97)
    Subject (LC): Nationalism--Africa, Portuguese-speaking.
    Subject (LC): Portugal--Colonies--Africa.
                 
    SAL CALL NUMBER                               COPY  LOCATION 
       DT36 .C5375                                1   SAL-PAGE    
                                                  2   SAL-PAGE    
    HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
       2)D509 .H788 V.97                          3   STACKS
     
    Author: Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice, 1930-
    Title: Immanuel Wallerstein collection of political ephemer of the liberation
    movements of Lusophone Africa and Anglophone Southern Africa (1958-1975).
    Physical Description: 12 reels.
    Note: Microfilm copy (positive) made by Yale University Library Photographic 
    services, 1976.
    Note: For description, see Inventory of select documents from the Immanuel 
    Wallerstein collection of political ephemera of the liberation movements of 
    Lusophone Africa and Anglophone Southern Africa (1958-1975) on  microfilm, 
    by Beverly Grier and Margaret Kinsman,  1977.   DT31.G7
    
    HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
       1)DT31 .W3 MFILM                             1   MICROFILM   

 

West Africa

Great Britain. Colonial Office.
Pamphlets about Africa [1870-1960]  
24 reels
Hoover Library MFILM DT6.G785
For inventory see:
Organization: Great Britain. Colonial Office. Title: Pamphlets about Africa; microfilm 698 Duquesne University Library. Contents listing by Donald Vrabel. Imprint: Pittsburgh, Pa., Duquesne University Library, 1974. Physical Description: 1 v. (various pagings) 28 cm. Added author: Vrabel, Donald. Hoover Library Reference DT6.G785 1974 (Mainly West Africa, but other countries also.)


Nigeria.
[Intelligence reports on Southern Nigeria; a collection of unpublished reports prepared by British colonial officials] 1932 1942.

16 reels
Hoover Library MFILM JQ3099.S5N5
For inventory see Nigeria. [Intelligence reports...inventory list] 5 leaves in Hoover Reference JQ3099.S5N5 Index

Nigerian Labour Archive. (Collection Chief A. Fagbenro Beyioka).
62 microfiche
Hoover Library MFiche HD6870.N5N54
Covers 1943 1975.

Nigerian pamphlets
[selected for filming by Kristin Mann]
1 reel
Hoover Library MFILM DT515.1.N688
26 pamphlets dating from 1889 1945
For index see: Nigerian pamphlets, list compiled by Iris Boudart...
Hoover Reference DT515.1.N688 Index

Noirot, Ernest, 1851 1913.
Papers, 1881-1909.
6 reels
Hoover MFILM DT534.N6
Noirot was a colonial administrator in French West Africa. Includes reports, notes, correspondence, maps, illustrations relating to his duties in Guinea and the Fouta Djallon and Senegambia regions.

Organization: Sierra Leone.
Title: Sierra Leone royal gazette.
Imprint: Freetown.
Hoover Library has: 1914-23; [66, 1935]; [69-70, 1938-39]
Hoover Call Number G.D. SIERRA LEONE

 

Southern Africa

Organization: Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)
Title: Records of the Cape Colony [microform] / copied for
       the Cape government, from the manuscript documents in
       the Public Record Office, London, by George McCall
       Theal.
Imprint: [London] : Printed for the government of the Cape
Colony, 1897-1905 (London: W. Clowes and Sons)
Physical Description: 36 v. : maps ; 22 cm.
Note: Records from Feb. 1793 [v. 1] - Apr. 1831 [v. 35]
Note: Vol. 36 comprises a cumulative index.
Note: "Every fifth volume contains a copious index ... of
      the contents of itself and of the preceding four"--v.
      36, p. 2.
Notes: Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress
       Photoduplication Service, 1987. 9 microfilm reels ; 35 mm.
Subject (LC): Cape of Good Hope (South Africa)--History--Sources.
Organization: Great Britain. Public Record Office.
GREEN--
Location: MEDIA-MTXT    
Library has: v.1-36

GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION 
MFILM N.S. 10540                           1   MEDIA-MTXT
          Title: The James Stuart archive of recorded oral evidence
          relating to the history of the Zulu and neighbouring
          people / edited and translated by C. de B. Webb and J.
          B. Wright.
          Imprint: Pietermaritzburg : University of Natal Press, 1976-
          Series: (Manuscript series - Killie Campbell Africana Library; nos. 1-4)
          Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
          Subject (LC): Zulu (African people)
          Subject (LC): Ethnology--Africa, Southern.
          Subject (LC): KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)--History--Sources.
          Series: Killie Campbell Africana Library. Manuscript series ;
                        no. 1-4
          GREEN--Location: STACKS    
          Library has: v.1-5
        
          GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION 
          DT878.Z9 J3 V.1 -5                               1   STACKS      
   

 

Statistics

The below microfiche collection covering many countries is in CAMP. It's also On Order for Stanford. Stanford however already has some of these statistics in the library; see under the country name.

               
Title: African official statistical serials on microfiche [microform]. Imprint: Cambridge, Eng. : Chadwyck-Healey ; Teaneck, N.J. : Somerset House, 1981- Physical Description: microfiches : ill. Notes: English, French, Italian, Portuguese, Somali, and Spanish. Subject (LC): Africa--Statistics.

Examples of Stanford holdings.

  Organization: Central African Republic. Service de la statistique et
  de la conjoncture.
  Title: Bulletin mensuel de statistique.
  Former title: Bulletin d'informations statistiques 1952?-56
  Imprint: [Bangui]
  Volume/date range: 1.-17. annee (no 1-197); 1952?-mai 1968.
  Notes: Vols. for 1952?-Nov.1958 issued by Ubangi-Shari.
  Bureau de la statistique generale (called 1952?-56,
  Bureau de statistique); vols. for Dec. 1958-60 by the
  Service de la statistique generale.
  Notes: Superseded by the publication with the same title
  issued by Central African Republic. Direction de la
  statistique generale et des etudes economiques.
  Subject (LC): Central African Republic--Statistics.
  Organization: French Equatorial Africa.
  Organization: Ubangi-Shari. Bureau de la statistique generale.
  Organization: Ubangi-Shari. Service de la statistique generale.
  Superseded by: Central African Republic. Direction de la statistique
                        generale et des etudes economiques. Bulletin mensuel
                        de statistique
  SAL3--Location: STACKS copy 1    
  Library has: annee 4-16

  SAL3 CALL NUMBER                              COPY  LOCATION 
   HA2084 .A23 V.4-5  
 Organization: French Equatorial Africa. Service de la statistique
 générale.
 Title: Annuaire statistiques de l'Afrique equatoriale fran*aise.
 Imprint: [Brazzaville]
 Note: At head of title: Haut commissariat de l'Afrique
 equatoriale franc*aise.
 Subject (LC): Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--Statistics.
 SAL3--Location: STACKS    
 Library has: 1936/50

 SAL3 CALL NUMBER                              COPY  LOCATION 
   316.72 .F877 1938-1950                     1   STACKS   

 

United States 19th Century Diplomats' Reports

See the list of U.S. Department of State microfilm on the page called, The Slave Trade Primary Sources in Microform. This list includes some missionary records.

 

Women

Title: Colonial discourses. Series one, Women, travel, &
empire, 1660-1914 [microform].
Title: Colonial discourses series 1
Imprint: Wiltshire, Eng. : Adam Matthew Publications, [1998-
Physical Description: microfilm reels ; 35 mm. + guides (v.)
Note: Accompanied by printed guides.
Incomplete contents: Pt. 1. Early travel accounts by women, and women's
experiences in India, Africa, Australasia and Canada(25 reels) -- 
pt. 2. Women and the Orient (25 reels) pt. 3. Women and the Orient (26 reels) Subject (LC): Women travelers--Great Britain--Sources. Subject (LC): Women adventurers--Great Britain--Sources.
GREEN--Location: HASRC copy 3 This location lacks main work. Supplement: 1 guide GREEN--Location: IC copy 2 This location lacks main work. Supplement: 1 guide GREEN--Location: MEDIA-MTXT copy 1 Library has: Reel 1-25 . reel 26-50 reel 51-76 Supplement: 1 guide GREEN CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION 1)G240 .C65 1999 GUIDE 1 MEDIA-MTXT 2 IC 3 HASRC 2)MFILM N.S. 15104 1 MEDIA-MTXT
 

Title: Sex and gender [microform] : manuscript sources from the Public Record Office / consultant editor, Ian Christopher Fletcher. Imprint: Marlborough : Adam Matthew, 2002- Physical Description: microfilm reels ; 35 mm. + guides (21 cm.) Note: Guides have additional subtitle: A listing and guide to the microfilm collection. Incomplete contents: Pt. 1. Empire and suffrage (AR, CAB, CO and DO files) -- pt. 2. Empire and suffrage (FO, HO, LAB, LO, PREM, T and WO files) Subject (LC): Great Britain. Public Record Office--Archives. Subject (LC): Sex role--Sources. Subject (LC): Women's rights--Great Britain--Sources. Organization: Great Britain. Public Record Office. GREEN--Location: MEDIA-MTXT copy 1 Library has: pt.1 pt.2 Supplement: "Guide" pt.1/2 GREEN CALL NUMBER COPY LOCATION HQ1593 .S475 2002 GUIDE PT.1/2 1 MEDIA-MTXT 2 MEDIA-MTXT 2)MFILM N.S. 16060 1 MEDIA-MTXT
Examples of contents:
Part One. CO 847/5/6 Africa: Status of women in Africa, 1935 FO 371/67827 Liberia: Female suffrage in Liberia CO 822/1139 Kenya: Advancement of African women in Kenya, 1954-1955
Reports of the Native Commissioners for 1900-1901 in Rhodesia, with information on their journeys through different regions and villages, investigations of the poor treatment of natives and observations on local customs, are a rich resource for researchers. Case studies such as Kikuyu circumcision ceremonies in Kenya
Part Two. There is a strong focus on Human Rights issues, records of meetings and many questionnaires with good responses regarding Tanganyika, Gambia, Nigeria,
the Cameroons and other African countries.

Bibliographies

Author: Joucla, Edmond Antoine, 1873-
Title: Bibliographie de l'Afrique occidentale française, par E. Joucla, avec la collaboration des services du gouvernement général de l'Afrique occidentale française et pour le Dahomey de m. Maupoil, administrateur des colonies.
Imprint: Paris, Société d'éditions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales, 1937.
Physical Description: 704 p. 25 cm.
Series: (Bibliographie générale des colonies françaises, par G. Grandidier ... E. Joucla)
Note: At head of title: Ouvrage publié sous le haut patronage de m. le ministre des colonies, de mm. les gouverneurs généraux, gouverneurs des colonies et commissaires de la République dans les territoires africains sous mandat français...
Subject (LC): Africa, French-speaking West--Bibliography.
Organization: French West Africa. Organization: Dahomey.
GREEN CALL NUMBER
LOCATION Z3711 .J68 1937 HASRC [Second Floor, Bing Wing]

SAL LOCATION Z3711 .J86 Copy 2

HOOVER LOCATION Z3711 .J86 CHECKEDOUT

***

Author: Lester, P.
Title: Bibliographie africaniste, par P. Lester.
Imprint: [Paris, Au siége de la Société, 1931-
Physical Description: v. ill. 28 cm.
Local note: Stanford copy 1 (STK): a section of the Journal de la
Société des africanistes, extracted and bound separately. Photocopy.
Subject (LC): Société des africanistes (France)--Periodicals.
Subject (LC): Africa--Bibliography--Periodicals.
GREEN--Location: STACKS copy 1    
Library has: 1-9, 1931/34-1963/65
GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION 
Z3501 .S6 V.1                                    1   STACKS 

***

Title: Subject catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society, formerly Royal Colonial Institute / by Evans Lewin...
Imprint: [London : The Society], 1930. 582 p. plus
Hoover Tower Reading Room (under dictionary stand) Z7164.C7R89f

***

ISBN: 1873836600
Author: Westfall, Gloria.
Title: French colonial Africa : a guide to official sources / Gloria D. Westfall.
Imprint: New York : Hans Zell Publishers, 1992.
Physical Description: 226 p.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject (LC): Government publications--Africa, French-speaking West--Bibliography.
Subject (LC): Government publications--Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--Bibliography.
Subject (LC): Government publications--France--Bibliography.
Subject (LC): Africa, French-speaking West--History--Sources--Bibliography.
Subject (LC): Africa, French-speaking Equatorial--History--Sources--Bibliography.
Subject (LC): France--Colonies--Africa--History--Sources--Bibliography.
GREEN LOCATION DT532 .W47 1992 SSRC
and
HOOVER LOCATION Z3671 .W47 1992 REFERENCE

 

Additional History Bibliographies (in pdf format)

 

Reference Books

                Author: Henige, David P.
                Title: A union list of Africana archival materials in
                microform / David Henige.
                Edition: 2nd ed.
                Imprint: [Madison, Wisc. : University of Wisconsin?], 1984.
                Physical Description: 45 p. ; 28 cm.
                Note: "With the exception of IEN (May 1983); CLU (January
                        1984); and WU (May 1984) the holding are as of
                        December 1981"--Pref.
                Subject (LC): Microforms--Catalogs.
                Subject (LC): Documents in microform--Catalogs.
                Subject (LC): Africa--History--Archival resources--Microform
                        catalogs.
                Subject (LC): Africa--Archival resources--Microform catalogs.

                SAL CALL NUMBER                               COPY  LOCATION 
                Z3509 .H46 1984                               2   SAL-PAGE    

                HOOVER CALL NUMBER                            COPY  LOCATION 
                2)Z3509 .H46 1984                               1   STACKS      
                
                ISBN: 0114402469 (v. 1)
                Author: Thurston, Anne.
                Title: Sources for colonial studies in the Public Record
                        Office / Anne Thurston.
                Imprint: London : HMSO, c1995-
                Physical Description: v. : ill. ; 26 cm.
                Series: (British documents on the end of empire. [Series C] ;
                        v. 1-2)
                Note: Vol. 1: "A revised and expanded version of Public
                        Record Office handbook no. 3: Records of the Colonial
                        and Dominions Offices by R.B. Pugh."
                Incomplete contents: v. 1. Records of the Colonial Office, Dominions
                        Office, Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth
                        Office -- v. 2. Records of the Cabinet, Foreign
                        Office, Treasury and other records.
                Subject (LC): Great Britain. Public Record Office--History--Sources.
                Subject (LC): Great
                        Britain--Colonies--Administration--History--Sources.
                Series: British documents on the end of empire. Series C ; v.
                        1-2.
                GREEN--Location: SSRC copy 1    
                Library has: v.1-2

                GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION 
                CD1043.3 .T54 1995 V.1                        1   SSRC        
                                                        
                2)CD1043.3 .T54 1995 V.2                        1   SSRC   
				
                Organization: Great Britain. Public Record Office.
                Title: Lists and indexes. Supplementary series / Public
                        Record Office, London.
                Imprint: New York : Kraus Reprint Corp., 1964-1977.
                Physical Description: 16 no. in 30 v. ; 32 cm.
                 
                Contents: no. 1. List of various common-law records -- no. 2.
                        List of ministers' accounts -- no. 3. List of lands of
                        dissolved religious houses (7 v.) -- no. 4.
                        Proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber (5 v.) -- no.
                        5. Duchy of Lancaster (3 v.) -- no. 6. List of
                        Admiralty records (8 v.) -- no. 7. Proceedings in the
                        Court of Requests (4 v.) -- no. 8. List of War Office
                        records (2 v.) -- no. 9, v. 2. List and index of
                        warants for issues, 1399-1485 -- no. 10. Supplementary
                        list of state papers, domestic and foreign -- no. 11.
                        List of Board of Trade records (4 v) -- no. 12. List
                        of Treasury records (2 v.) -- no. 13. List of Foreign
                        Office records ( v) -- no. 14. Lists of rentals and
                        surveys -- no. 15. Index to ancient correspondence of
                        the Chancery and the Exchequer (2 v.) -- no. 16. List
                        of Colonial Office records ( v.).
                        Subject (LC): Court records--Great Britain.
                        Subject (LC): Archives--Great Britain.
                        Subject (LC): Great Britain--History--Sources.
                        GREEN--Location: SSRC copy 1   INDIVIDUAL VOLS. OF THIS TITLE ALSO
                        CATALOGED SEPARATELY  
                        Library has: no.1-2;no.3,pt.1-7;no.4,pt.1-5;no.5,pt.1-3;no.6,
                        pt.1-4,8;
                        Library has: no.7,pt.1-3;no.8,pt.1-2;no.9,pt.2;no.10-11,pt.1-
                        4;no.12,
                        Library has: pt.1-2;no.13,pt.1-29;no.14-15,pt.1-2;no.16,pt.1- 8

                        GREEN CALL NUMBER                             COPY  LOCATION 
                        CD1040 .A26 F SUPPL. NO.1      
  

Additional History Reference Books (in pdf)


Historical Currency Comparison

and other sources (France, etc.)


Green Library Contacts:

Karen Fung (Sub-Saharan Africa) - kfung at stanford dot edu
Benjamin Stone (British & Commonwealth History) - bstone at stanford dot edu

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