An African Survey - Revised 1956

This is an update to An African Survey (1938) which work owed its inception to a suggestion made by General Smuts in the course of the Rhodes Memorial Lecture delivered by him at Oxford in 1929.

A Committee was formed under the chairmanship of Lord Lothian, which arranged for the preparation of the Survey.

This volume comprises an in-depth study of the socio-economic and political status of all African states as at 1955, with chapters and subheadings on the following:

The Physical Background, the African Peoples, The African Languages, Population Records, Political and Social Objectives, Systems of Government, The Non-European Immigrant Communities, The Administration of African Affairs, Law and Justice, Direct Taxation, The Land, The European Settlements in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia and Kenya, Agriculture, Forests, Water Supply, Soil Conservation, Health, Education, Economic Development, Labour, Minerals and Mines, Transport, etc.

1676 pp. including the index and several fold-out maps.
Boards and binding in very good condition, endpapers lightly foxed; dust-jacket good, spine faded. The jacket is housed in a Brodart protective sleeve.