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Managing the British Empire
The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development. Acting in the United Kingdom as the commercial and financial agent for the crown colonies, the Agency supplied all non-locally manufactured stores required by colonial governments, issued their London loans, managed their UK investments, and supervised the construction of their railways, harbours and other public works. In addition, the Office supervised the award of colonial land and mineral concessions, monitored the colonial banking and currency system, and performed a personnel role, paying colonial service salaries and pensions, recruiting technical officers, and arranging the transport of officers, troops and Indian indentured labour. In this important book, the first in-depth investigation of the Agency, David Sunderland examines each of these services in turn, determining in each case whether the Crown Agents' performance benefited their clients, the UK economy or themselves. His book is thus both an account of a remarkable and unique organisation and a fascinating examination of the 'nuts and bolts' of nineteenth-century development. DAVID SUNDERLAND is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.
Cambridge University Library
Extensively illustrated with over 200 photographs, this book is a celebration of the treasures of Cambridge University Library by a group of eminent scholars.
Subject Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society, Formerly Royal Colonial Institute
As of 1930 the Royal Empire Society Library contained 200,000 books am pamphlets. The first catalogue of its holdings was published in 1881 and in only 29 pages.The catalogue is compiled on a geographical basis, each country being divided under definite subject headings which are subdivided wherever necessary into cognate subjects. In addition there is an author-index giving, wherever is possible, the full names of the authors, with the dates of birth and earth, and such further particulars as may illustrate the more important positions they have held or their qualifications for writing a particular book. By use of the author-index all the works of a particular writing can be traced. The entries under subjects are arranged in chronological order. Where date is enclosed within brackets and follows or precedes the date of publication, it signifies the date of the first edition.This first volume covers Africa.
