43rd Annual Association of Caribbean Historians Conference

43rd Annual Association of Caribbean Historians Conference


Call for Paper and Panel Proposals, Due Sept. 30, 2010*

Please send questions and/or proposals to achsecretary@gmail.com

The 43rd Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians is scheduled for Puerto Rico on May 16-20, 2011. Application instructions, as well as forms for paper and panel proposals, are available on the Association of Caribbean Historians website ( http://www.associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/). All applications must be received by Sept. 30, 2010 for consideration.

The following themes were suggested at this year's Annual General Meeting in Barbados. *Please note, while papers on such topics are encouraged, the Executive Committee welcomes proposals on other subjects or ideas*.

Suggested themes included:
- Religion in the Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Caribbean
- The Relationship between Caribbean Literature and History
- Political Institutions of the Twentieth Century
- Financial and Banking Comparisons
- Transportation and Travel History
- Haiti and African-Atlantic Identities in the Nineteenth Century
- Israelites, Jews and Rastafarianism in the Caribbean
- Digital Sources for the Study of Caribbean History
- Teaching Caribbean History
- Dance and Culture of the Caribbean, in Honor of Rex Nettleford
- Slavery and Abolition in the Spanish and Circum-Caribbean
- Archives and the Construction of Knowledge
- Intellectual Traditions of the Twentieth Century

Proposals for the 2011 ACH Conference should be sent via e-mail by September 30, 2010 to:

*Michelle Craig McDonald, Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean
Historians: achsecretary@gmail.com

Proposals can also be mailed (to be received by September 30, 2010) to:

Michelle Craig McDonald,
Secretary-Treasurer, Association of Caribbean Historians
Richard Stockton College
P.O. Box 195
Pomona, New Jersey 08240, U.S.A.

History In Action - Department of History at The UWI, St Augustine

In a greater effort to bring local, regional and international attention to the scholarship of history, the Department of History at The UWI, St Augustine has launched an in-house journal - History in Action.


Contributions are solicited from a wide cross-section of scholars and advanced graduate students in and outside the Department of History, undergraduate students with works of exceptional quality as well as non-university researchers and writers of history.

The journal, which will be published annually and made available via the UWI institutional repository (UWISpace), will be of considerable benefit to a wide cross-section of scholars and students, libraries in addition to members of the public interested in history.

UWISpace is a platform being implemented by UWI’s Main Library to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute research material in digital formats. The journal will be part of an interactive website embracing available multimedia and web 2.0 technologies (RSS feed, blogs, podcasts, video streams, hyperlinked resources, etc.)

History is not only based on written records but on all human actions, including those recorded orally and reflected exclusively in the archaeological record.

The journal’s editorial committee is inviting diverse contributions on documentary history, archaeology, personal narratives (based on oral interviews), ethnography, historical geography, historical linguistics and cultural landscapes.

Contributors are actively encouraged to submit multimedia data in support of their respective papers, should the need arise. In order to expedite the process of publication, this journal will not be peer-reviewed. However, all submissions will be assessed by the editor and members of the editorial committee to determine their suitability for publication. The Editor reserves the right to edit all submissions.

Contributors, especially students, are gently advised to guard against plagiarism and copyright violations. Full paper submissions must be no more than 2,500 words and must each have a bibliography and endnotes. Paper submissions must adhere to the Chicago Manual of Style http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html

The members of the editorial committee are:

* Dr Basil Reid (Editor)
* Dr Claudius Fergus
* Professor Bridget Brereton
* Dr Michael Toussaint and
* Mr Frank Soodeen (UWI Main Library’s Representative)

Abstracts of no more than 150 words should be ubmitted to the Editor, Dr Basil Reid, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology in the Department of History, U.W.I., St. Augustine. Dr Reid’s e-mail contacts are Basil.Reid@sta.uwi.edu and breidster@gmail.com.

St Kitts - Nevis Independence

Another list recently added to the archives catalogue, is a collection relating to independence in St Kitts and Nevis.

ICS 98 St Kitts-Nevis Independence, includes documents relating to the achievement of independence by St Kitts-Nevis in 1983, including papers concerning objections to the proposed form of the new Government; official proceeedings of a Constitutional Conference and of the UK Parliament to grant independence; and copies of newspapers and bulletins.
The PDF list is available at: http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/ICS98.pdf

August Bank Holiday

The Library is closed over the August Bank Holiday 28 August - 30 August.
We reopen as normal Tuesday 31 August,

Winter term opening hours start from Monday 27 September 2010 to Friday 17 December 2010. From the 27th we will be open:


Monday - Thursday 09.00 - 21.00
Friday 09.00 - 18.30
Saturday 09.45 - 17.30

New archives lists in PDF format added to catalogue - John Ferguson and Ceylon

One of the projects for the Commonwealth Studies Library this year has been to add PDF format catalogue lists or handlists to the archives catalogue for each of our collections, whether or not the collection is listed on the catalogue. We hope this improves access to our collections and also makes it easier for readers and potential readers to get an overview of collections and make requests in advance.

Recently added lists include those for:

ICS 86 Ferguson Papers

Papers of John Ferguson CMG, Assistant Editor, later Proprietor and Editor of the Ceylon Observer 1861-1913, and member of the Legislative Council for Ceylon 1903-1908; also some of his uncle Alastair Mackenzie Ferguson CMG, Assistant Editor, later Proprietor and Editor of the Ceylon Observer 1846-1893.

The collection includes material relating to the ‘Ceylon Observer’ and related publications, railways in Ceylon, tea, coffee, coconut and other planting trades, the governors and governance of Ceylon, John Ferguson’s official honours and appointments, religious matters in Ceylon, visits and lecture tours undertaken by John Ferguson overseas, and papers relating to Ferguson’s personal, family and social affairs.

Menzies Centre for Australian Studies 2010-11 Seminar Series

Menzies Centre for Australian Studies 2010-11 Seminar Series

Term 1

All seminars, unless otherwise stated, are held on Wednesday evenings at 5.15 pm, in The Australia Centre, Corner Strand and Melbourne Place, London, WC 2B 4LG

RSVP: carl.bridge@kcl.ac.uk

29 September 2010

David Roberts (University of New England)
Remembering Lt Oxley: National History and Provincial Memory in rural New South Wales

followed at 6.30pm by:

Geoff Page
Poetry reading
Geoff will read from a range of work but particularly from his collections Agnostic Skies (Five Islands Press 2006) and Seriatim (Salt 2007).

**Venue: Room S8.08, Department of History, King’s College London, Eighth Floor, Strand Building, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS**

13 October 2010

Adam Hughes Henry (Australian National University)
Manufacturing the Debates: The Australian Foreign Policy Network in the 1960s

27 October 2010

Katie Holmes (University College Dublin)
The Poet’s Gardens: Judith Wright’s letters, language and landscape

3 November 2010

Vanessa Castejon (L’Universite Paris XIII), Anna Cole (University of London, Goldsmiths College) and Oliver Haag (University of Vienna)
Ego-histoire & Australia

17 November

Aruna Wittmann (King’s College London)
Peter Carey: a psychoanalytic perspective

1 December 2010

Richard Scully (University of New England)
Four Australasian Women and the German Empire

8 December 2010

Brigitta Olubas (University of New South Wales)
Writing about the UN: Shirley Hazzard’s humanist politic

Professor Philip Murphy profiled on British Scholar

The US-based website British Scholar is running a profile of Professor Philip Murphy, Director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, as their ‘Featured Scholar’ for July-August 2010. Read more on


http://britishscholar.org/scholarofthemonth.html

Commodities of Empire

The Commodities of Empire Project is an official British Academy Research Project, Commodities of Empire is a collaboration between the Open University's Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies and the University of London School of Advanced Study's Institute for the Study of the Americas.

The project recognises the links between imperial expansion, global trade and the ongoing industrial revolution, and explores the networks through which commodities including included foodstuffs (wheat, rice, bananas); industrial crops (cotton, rubber, linseed and palm oils); stimulants (sugar, tea, coffee, cocoa, tobacco and opium); and ores (tin, copper, gold, diamonds) circulated within, and in the spaces between, empires.

A special 'Commodities of Empire' issue in the Journal of Global History was published in Spring 2009 (Vol 4, No.1). The project website also contains a series of online working papers.

These have been published since 2007 and topics include sugar, engineering and commerce in nineteenth-century Cuba; tobacco in the Dominican Republic; the role of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic coal route; the United Kingdom and the political economy of the global oil-producing nuts and seeds during the 1930s;

the history of Bengali raw silk; obscenity, empire and global networks; coffee and decolonisation in Kenya; tapioca-cassava; cotton, imperialism and public-private development in Britain’s African colonies, 1900-1918; the Kongo rubber trade; Indian Pale Ale; the battle for rubber in the Second World War; and Cuban popular resistance to the 1953 London Sugar Agreement.

Political Pamphlets and Ephemera

Depicted are some examples of pamphlets relating to Australia.


The political archives held by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library encompass more than 270 boxes of material from over 60 countries. They mainly date from the 1960s and 1970s, and as a consequence for many countries they cover the hugely significant period of the transition to independence. To keep this collection up to date we welcome donations of material from political parties, trade unions and pressure groups (on issues of all kinds, including women’s and lesbian and gay rights, the environment, and trade). Material can be sent to:

David Clover
The Commonwealth Studies Librarian, University of London
Library Office, 4th Floor , Senate House
Malet St
London WC1E 7HU.

Society and Environment: new research in Belize

Society and Environment: new research in Belize

13th Annual Meeting of the United Kingdom - Belize Association (UKBA)
Friday 24th September, 2010

12.00 noon - 5.00 pm

Rewley House
1 Wellington Square
University of Oxford

PROGRAMME

12.00 Lunch - Mawby Pavilion, Rewley House

12.45 Session 1: Politics and Society
Neil Pyper, Oxford Analytica: Narcos and Maras: encroaching on Belize?
Dylan Vernon, University of London: The Making of a Patronage Democracy: concepts and issues for a case study of post-independence Belize
Steven R. Brechin, Syracuse University & Osmany Salas: Government-NGO Networks & Nature Protection in Belize: examining the theory of the hollow state in a developing country context

2.45 Tea and coffee

3.00 Session 2: Environment and Society
Patrick Doncaster, University of Southampton: The Darwin Initiative wildlife corridor project in Belize
Christopher Minty, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh & Charles Britt, New Mexico State University: Illegal poaching and habitat loss on an isolated sub-species population of Scarlet Macaw's (Ara macao cyanoptera) in the Chiqubul Forest, Belize
Elizabeth Rushton, University of Nottingham: Lamanai, Belize: an environmental history
Jaimie Henthorn: Life in the Tree: arboreal architecture for both art and research

5.00 Meeting close

5.30 Informal drinks at Jude the Obscure, Walton Street

7.30 Dinner at Al Andalus, Little Clarendon Street

Conference fee: £20

Onsite accommodation available - further details on the registration webpage below.
To attend the conference, please register online via the following link before 20th September, 2010 http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/details.php?id=O10C556F2J

Beyond the Stain: A Symposium on Australian Convict History

Beyond the Stain: A Symposium on Australian Convict History

Department of History, Room S8.08, Eighth Floor, Strand Building,
King’s College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Thursday, 16 September 2010

9.30: Welcome

9.35-11.05
Babette Smith (Independent Historian), Beyond Birthstain
Hilary Carey (University of Newcastle) Clerical Opponents of Transportation
Tim Causer (King’s College London) Anti-transportationism, convict sexuality and Norfolk Island

11.05-11.30: Morning tea

11.30-12.15
Jonathan auf der Heide, Producer, Director and Co-writer of the film Van Diemen’s Land (2009), in conversation with Ian Henderson (King’s College London)

12.15-1.15
Tony Moore (Monash University), Remembering the Political Convicts: the Australian colonies and the global public sphere
David Andrew Roberts (University of New England), Placing the Legacy: Some Thoughts on the World Heritage Listing of Australian Convict Sites

1.15-2.15: Lunch

2.15-3.45
Ian Duffield (University of Edinburgh) Taking Liberties: Australia’s Transported Convicts as Pirates
Kirsty Reid (University of Bristol) Writing transportation: shipboard literacies and convict voyages to Australia
Tina Picton Phillipps (University of Edinburgh) Aspects of the Life of Lawrence Halloran: the tale of an obsession

3.45-4.15: Afternoon tea

4.15-5.45
David Meredith (University of Oxford), Toiling towards freedom: convict workers in the Probation System in Van Diemen’s Land 1840-1853
Richard Cox (King’s College London), William Cox’s Convict Empire
David Dunstan (Monash University/King’s College London), The Stuff of Legend, Literature and Myth – Convictism in Colonial Victoria

6.30-8.00
Launch of Tony Moore’s Death or Liberty: Rebels And Radicals Transported To Australia 1788–1868 (Pier 9)

Bookings for the symposium are essential as places are limited: RSVP timothy.causer@kcl.ac.uk

Conveners: Dr. Tim Causer: timothy.causer@kcl.ac.uk; Dr. Frank Bongiorno: frank.bongiorno@kcl.ac.uk

Intute World Guide

Intute is well known for its collection of web resources and internet training suite. Less well-known perhaps, and worthy of publicity is its World Guide.

Intute has compiled a series of guides for over 270 countries and territories. These include features, demographics, geography data, interactive world maps, thousands of satellite photos, scrollable city images and links to resources about each country within the Intute database. You can even compare data between countries. You may go straight to the entry for a specific country via the dropdown menu, or you can search for satellite images and features by keyword.

As an example, the entry for Bangladesh, includes a country profile (taken from the CIA World Factbook); demographic information, including population, population age, gender ratios, details on population change and links to labour force data; a selection of maps and geographical information; an overview of key economic data; a selection of key transport and communications information; a selection of satellite images; internet links; and a link to IMF World Economic Outlook data 2008.

Solomon Islands elections

The Commonwealth Secretariat has recently issued an interim statement on the 2010 Solomon Islands Election

During the election period, Commonwealth observers reported from six of the ten provinces in the country and Honiara, and cooperated with other regional and international observers under the auspices of the United Nations International Election Observation Coordination Team.

The observer team commends the people of the Solomon Islands for conducting the 4 August National Parliamentary election in a peaceful atmosphere. It notes that voters freely exercised their democratic right, and that voting in the polling stations was generally well administered, though some inconsistency in electoral procedures was noticed across stations and provinces.  The team also notes numerous concerns and controversy surrounding the quality of the voter register, and makes some recommendations on this issue - including the use of voter cards. The role of the media is commended, "Solomon Islands has a vibrant independent media which provided comprehensive and responsible coverage of the campaign and election day.", and the interim statement includes discussion on the election campaign, dupport for women candidates, voting and counting processes and electoral administration.

The full report, once published, will be acquired by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, and will join our already extensive collection of reports by Commonwealth and other observer groups.

'Negotiating with the ‘Enemy’: perspectives past and present - 24th September 2010

University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of Commonwealth Studies-Open University Empire and Postcolonial Group and Ferguson Centre for African & Asian Studies

Workshops on Counterinsurgency and Colonialism


'Negotiating with the ‘Enemy’: perspectives past and present

Friday 24 September 2010

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Venue: Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of
London, Court Room, South Block, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU

Theme:

Counterinsurgency, 'homeland security' and 'The War on Terror' have led to a renewed interest in historical case studies of counterinsurgency, including case studies from the British Empire and Commonwealth. There has been debate in the US and UK of military
strategies, 'winning hearts and minds', and policing for international operations. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the peace process in Northern Ireland, demonstrate that another, relatively neglected area can have a major impact on such campaigns. This is the 'negotiation' with, and 'persuasion' of, militant elites and their key civilian supporters. The Northern Ireland peace process was developed through complex, often secret, contacts. The Iraqi insurgency was turned around as much through the 'Anbar Awakening' as by a 'surge' and new counterinsurgency policy. The question of how to negotiate, persuade and buy over Taliban leaders and supporters came to the fore in Afghanistan policy in 2009-10. This workshop will look at a variety of ways and contexts, contemporary and historical, in which 'enemy' leaders (military and civilian) have been targeted for persuasion and negotiation.

Enquires: To apply to attend without a paper please email Troy Rutt: Troy.rutt@sas.ac.uk

Programme

Registration 9.00-9.15

Opening 9.15-9.30

Session 1 9.30-11.00 Negotiating with tribal societies – AfPak perspectives

• Negotiating Frontier Relations: Britain & Wazistan (Hugh Beattie, Open University) Discussant: TBC
• The Political Officer: Managing the Pashtun tribes of the NW Frontier of India 1901-1947 (Chris Tripodi, Kings College London, DSD) Discussant: TBC
• Pashtun Perspectives on negotiating with the Soviets & British, 1839-1987 (Rob Johnson, Oxford University) Discussant: John Bew

Tea 11.00-11.15

Session 2 11.15-12.45 Levels of Negotiation: surrender & loyalty transfer

• Negotiating with Mau Mau: pseudo-gangs and surrender schemes, 1952-56 (Huw Bennett, King’s College London) Discussant: Karl Hack.
• Communist perspectives on coming to terms with the British & semi-autonomous local politicians: Malaya 1948-60’ (Karl Hack, Open University). Discussant: TBC.

Lunch 12.45-1.45

Session 3 1.45-3.15 Covert peacemaking: Northern Ireland experiences

• Covert peacemaking: Clandestine Negotiations &Backchannels with the IRA during the early ‘Troubles’, 1972-76 (Andrew Mumford, University of Hull) Discussant: TBC
• Behind the Scenes: Negotiating with Republicans & Loyalists and the Northern Ireland Peace Process, 1980s-90s (Paul Dixon, Kingston University) Discussant: TBC.

Tea 3.15-3.30

Session 4 3.30-5.00 Paradoxes, Paradigms and Problems

• The Northern Ireland model re-examined: conditions for successful negotiation (John Bew, Kings College London) Discussant: Paul Dixon
• The Paradoxes of Negotiation (Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Bart Schuurman, Utrecht University, Netherlands) Discussant: TBC.

Roundtable/overview 5.00-5.30

For further details see the full programme.

Novia Scotia historic newspapers online

With thanks to Intute for alerting us to this:

Novia Scotia historic newspapers online


A joint project of the Beaton Institute, Cape Breton University and Nova Scotia Archives & Records Management this resource provides free access to the full text of about 15 local newspapers covering the 18th-20th Century. These are rich sources of social, political and economic history of Canadian regions. Titles include Nova Scotia Chronicle and Weekly Advertiser (Halifax), 1769-1770, and The Cape Breton News (Sydney), 1850-1854

More new books

A further selection of new books added to the catalogue and collection in July:

Akwasi Addaae-Boahene, Aid effectiveness and the education sector : implications for civil society,  Accra : SEND Ghana, 2009.

Nicholas Atampugre, Opportunities for civil society engagement with aid effectiveness in Ghana : an overview of aid policy, harmonisation strategy, and delivery/management mechanisms,  Accra : SEND-Ghana : Aid Effectiveness Forum, [2009]

Tony Balshaw and Jonathan Goldberg, Broad-based black economic empowerment : final codes & scorecard, Cape Town : Human & Rousseau, 2008.

Suhas Chakma (ed), India human rights report, 2009, New Delhi, India : Asian Centre for Human Rights, 2009.

Peter Clegg and Emilio Pantojas-García (eds), Governance in the non-independent Caribbean : challenges and opportunities in the twenty-first century, Kingston, Jamaica : Ian Randle, 2009.

Francis Clift et al, Caribbean Children's Law Project : the law relating to children in Barbados, Jamaica, Guyana and Trinidad & Tobago, Brixton, London : Hornby Ackroyd & Levy, [1997?]

Julie Dubois, Trends in student borrowing and pathways : evidences from the 1990, 1995 and 2000 classes : final report, [Ottawa] : Learning Policy Directorate, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2006.

Ruth Hall (ed), Another countryside? : policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa, Bellville : PLAAS, School of Government, University of the Western Cape, 2009.

Anthony Harriott, Farley Brathwaite, Scot Wortley (eds), Crime and criminal justice in the Caribbean, Kingston, Jamaica : Arawak Publications, c2004.

Terence Lee, The media, cultural control and government in Singapore, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Judy Smith-Höhn, A strategic conflict assessment of Zambia, Pretoria, South Africa : Institute for Security Studies, 2009.

New Books - not so new

New additions to our catalogue and collections, but all published some years ago, the following books were all acquired by donation, and fill gaps in our collection:

J. Howard Wallace, Manual of New Zealand History, Wellington: J.H. Wallace, 1886
Written and published by J. Howard Wallace "one of the pioneer settlers of the colony... author of "The Early History of New Zealand"" this book presents a precis of the history fo New Zealand,  intended as a syllabus for students. The book includes a chronological history of New Zealand"from its discovery until the present date" (discovery refering to European discovery not the earlier Maori discovery and settlement), details of government, "spiritual conquest", governors, etc

Ceylon, Report of the Special Committee on Broadcasting in Ceylon, June, 1941, Colombo, Sri Lanka : Ceylon Govt. Press, 1941.
Report of a secial committee established in 1940 to consider broadcasting in Ceylon in all its aspects. The report includes a historical survey of radio broadcasting in Ceylon and compares development with that of India. The report makes recommendations relating to transmitting equipment to extend the coverage of broadcasts, improvements to existing studios, rural broadcasting, programme content, and the organisation of the broadcasting service.

Kenneth Bradley, The Colonial Service as a Career, London : H.M.S.O., 1950.
Aimed at young people thinking of making their careers in the Colonial Service, describing the service, the qualities required, life and work in the service, empire building and working towards the Commonwealth. Includes illustrations and photographs.

Kenneth Bradley, A Career in the Oversea Civil Service, London : H.M.S.O., 1955.
Aimed at young people thinking of making their careers in the Overseas Civil Service, with similar content as above, but "nation building" now replacing the 1950's "Empire building" chapter.

Republic of Ghana, Report of the Commission : appointed under the Commissions of Enquiry Act, 1964 (Act 250) to Enquire into the Kwame Nkrumah Properties, [Accra-Tema : Published by the Ministry of Information on Belhalf of the National Liberation Council, 1967]
A report commissioned after the coup in 1966 which overthrew the Nkrumah government. The report in scathingly critical of Nkrumah and suggests that various propoerties were acquired dishonestly and recommends that these be recovered by the government of Ghana. Also known as the Apaloo Commission.

Republic of Ghana, Summary of the report of the Commission of Enquiry into Irregularities and Malpractices in the Grant of Import Licences, Accra-Tema : Ministry of Information, 1967.
Another post-coup report, in this case looking into the granting of export licenses by Mr A.Y.K. Djin, Mr Kwesi Amoako Atta, Mr Ayeh Kumi, Mr Halm and Kweis Armah. The report claims irregularities, confused administration, preferential treatment, fraud and malpractice. The report includes details of specific allegations.

Don Barnett, With the Guerrillas in Angola, Liberation Support Movement, 1970
In this 34 page pamphlet, author Don Barnett outlines a visit to Angola and MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) camps. Barnett describes the situation and routines of the camps, and local villages, as well as noting Portuguese actions and the impact on victims of these actions. The pamphlet includes photographs of guerillas, villagers and some individuals.

Marga Holness, Apartheid's War Against Angola. An account of South African aggression against the People's Republic of Angola, New York, NY : Centre Against Apartheid, United Nations ; Oslo, Norway : World Campaign Against Military and Nuclear Collaboration with South Africa, 1983.
Describes South African actions against Angola, including historic co-operation with the colonial Portuguese government, the "1975-76 invasion", bombing raids, border provocations, infantry attacks and artillery shelling, and continuing acts of agression from 1979 to 1981. Describes the context of South African aggression against the "frontline states", and co-operation between frontline states and national liberation movements, as well as United Nations Security Council condemnations of South African actions.

J.H. Proctor (ed) The Cell System of the Tanganyika African National Union, Dar es Salaam : Tanzania Pub. House, 1971.
A collection of reports, originally written by third year students in the Department of Political Science at the University College, Dar es Salaam, on the ten-house cell structure of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). Chapters include: Building party cells in Tanzania; TANU cells: organs of one-party democratic socialism; Cells at work in Iramba; Cells in Dar es Salaam and Bukoba; Cell leaders in Mbulumbulu and the problems of effectiveness; and the operation of TANU cells in Iringa.

Un an après la libération : 5 juin 1977-5 juin 1978 = One year after liberation : 5 June 1977-5 June 1978, [Victoria : Dept. of Administration and Information, Office of the President, Govt. of Seychelles, 1978?]
In English and French, this publication celebrates a year of independence in the Seychelles, and includes: Address by President Rene on Liberation Day 1978; To the heroes... and to the future (speech by President Rene); The aim is food self-sufficiency (speech by Minister of Agriculture and Land Use, Dr Maxime Ferrari); Seychelles development strategy; and photographs of the Liberation Day Parade.
Whose Rubicon? : report of a visit to South Africa by representatives of the British Churches, London : British Council of Churches in association with the Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1986.
Reports on a visit to South Africa in 1985, with chapters on the perception of Urban Blacks; Black views of white attitudes; Political considerations; and Economic factors; as well as reporting on the churches in South Africa, and suggesting tasks for the British Churches in support of the "oppressed black majority". Includes discussion of disinvestment.

Frank Chicane, The Church's Prophetic Witness against the Apartheid System in South Africa (25th February-8th April 1988), Johannesburg : South African Council of Churches, [1988?]
Describes actions by the South African church , after the banning of a number of non-violent and peaceful organisations, severe restictions on the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the Banning of 18 respected leaders of the Black community in the 24th of February 1988. Church leaders took part in a series of actions including statements, a march to parliament, meetings and letters, which are described in this book as well as South African government reaction. Appendices include copies of the Statement, Call to Action and letters to and from the government.

New Books - New Zealand

Our regular new books lists are still on hold while we work out a better way to produce these. In the meantime, here's a selection of books hot from our cataloguer's shelves and now available on open access in the Commonwealth Studies collection. These are all published in New Zealand (as I was there this time last year) by the Victoria University Press:

Richard Boast and Richard S. Hill (eds) Raupatu: The Confiscation of Maori Land, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009.
The confiscation of Maori land in the Waikato, Taranaki and in other regions by the state in 19th century New Zealand was a "revolutionary and complex process that continues to echo down to the present day". The book collects essays based on a conference hosted by the Stout Centre at Victoria University of Wellington in 2008. The contributors consider a range of issues and perspectives, setting the confiscation of Maori land into its broader political,. legal and imperial contexts.

Richard S. Hill, Maori and the State. Crown-Maori Relations in New Zelaand/Aotearoa, 1950-2000,  Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009.
A companion volume to the author's State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy, which covered Crown-Maori relations in the first half of tweentieth century New Zealand, this book focuses on a complex series of interactions between the principle institutions of both state and Maori people. The book analyses Maori aspirations in terms of the longstanding quest for Crown recognition of rangatiratanga, and in doing so examines both continuities and changes, paying special attention to the impacts of post-WW2 migration by Maori to large towns and cities. It charts a period in which the official state policy of assimilation was superceded (under pressure) by a policy of biculturalism.

Stephen Levine and Nigel S. Roberts (eds) Key to Victory. The New Zealand General Election of 2008, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2010.
A series of insiders’ views on New Zealand's most recent general election, this record shows how the National Party's John Key became the country's 38th Prime Minister. Accounts from politicians and media personalities describe the details of the successful campaign, with insightful observations from members of Parliament, academic commentators, and political columnists. A DVD included contains excerpts from televised party leaders’ debates, their opening night campaign addresses, and other campaign advertising.

Stephen Levine (ed) Pacific Ways. Government and Politics in the Pacific Islands, Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2009.
Contains expert chapters on each Pacific Island state and territory, discussing its historical background and colonial experience, its constitutional framework, political institutions, political parties, elections and electoral systems, and "problems and prospects". Countries included are: American Samoa, Australia, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Kiribati,   Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn, Rapa Nui/Easter Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna, as well as a useful chapter on regional political institutions and transitions.