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British Parliamentary Papers / Blue Books

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Kind commission or official report
Producer British Parliament / Colonial and Foreign Office
Coverage 1830-1908
Works using it 7

Debates

Debate Works
Pre-Union colonial economy, the mineral revolution and the South African War 5
Agrarian transition to capitalism and the fate of the African peasantry 2
Agricultural policy, productivity, farm size and land reform 1
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves 1
Historiographical approaches 1
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation 1
The state and capital: instrumentalism, autonomy and fractions of capital 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Beinart (1982) British Parliamentary Papers on Pondoland affairs (C.4590, C.5022, C.5410) and Cape parliamentary papers (G.58-1879, A.105-1880, G.10-1887) 1879-1895 Documents on the Mpondo paramountcy, trade, the 1886 settlement and annexation.
Brookes (1924) Commons Select Committee on Aborigines (British Settlements), 1836-7 1836-7 Evidence of Philip, Stockenstrom, Shaw used to explain Treaty policy and segregation views.
Brookes (1924) Commons Select Committee on Cape of Good Hope, 1851 1851 Napier and Stockenstrom evidence on recognising Chiefs and Native policy.
Brookes (1924) Native Laws and Customs Commission/other: Imperial Blue Books (C.5070/1887, C.5238/1887, C.5249/1887, C.5363/1887, C.5896/1890; Return of Engagements with Native Tribes 1884) 1884-1890 Supports treaty list, Basutoland administration, and police misconduct examples.
Cope (1989) British Parliamentary Papers (C. 1025, C. 1121, C. 1401-1, C. 1631, C. 459; 425 of 1837; 339 of 1836) 1836-1876 Official despatches and select committee report documenting Carnarvon's Natal instructions, Cape ministry's views and earlier philanthropic attitudes.
Harries (1987) British Foreign Office files (FO 63, FO 84) and Parliamentary Papers C. 1137 (1875) 1873-1888 Consular reports on labour shipments and Shepstone's report on the Cetshwayo expedition.
Johnston (1899) Blue Books on the Delagoa Bay arbitration (MacMahon award, 1875) 1870s The author reads the evidence preserved in Blue Books to judge that Portuguese claims covered only the northern shore and that the arbitrator's award was biassed.
Johnston (1899) Foreign Office and Colonial Office Blue Books on Africa and the slave trade, 1830-1898 1830-1898 Listed as the chief documentary guide, and cited as the evidence preserved on the Delagoa Bay claim and the Foreign Office response on Kilimanjaro.
Mabin (1984) British Parliamentary Papers C.1244 (Carnarvon to Barkly 1875) 1875 Confederation dispatch used for imperial motives.
Sanderson (1961) Cd. 1200 of 1902 1902 Supports Southern Rhodesian mining wage rates.
Sanderson (1961) Cd. 3993 of 1908 (Transvaal Labour Commission/native labour report with Sharpe evidence) 1908 (data 1902-1907) Principal source for wage rates, Nyasa numbers on the Rand, death rates, alien labour share in Rhodesia, Sharpe's 1907 estimates and WNLA recruiter testimony.
Sanderson (1961) Report by Commissioner Johnston, C. 7504 of 1894, Africa no. 6 1894 Gives the number of Europeans resident in 1894 and the initial hut tax rate, showing limited wage-earning opportunities.