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Neither date was selected arbitrarily. From 1868 published official records issued by or on behalf of Basutoland (Lesotho), the first of the High Commission Territories, may be identified. One hundred years later, the independence of Swaziland, the last of the High Commission Territories, signaled the end of effective British rule in continental Africa. This bibliography includes citations to documents of the former High Commission Territories during British protection and since independence, together with reports pre¬ pared by agencies or individuals with official authorization and funds. From 1868 to the beginning of the 20th century, official publications issued by the three governments are sparse. To increase the usefulness of the guide for this period, a number of relevant British official papers have been included, some of which pertain to Bechuanaland (Botswana) and Swaziland before the establishment of British protectorates. These papers are of significance because they contribute to an understanding of each territory’s sub¬ sequent relations with the protecting power. There is also a selection of publications issued by the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, which administered Basutoland from 1871 to 1884, and the South African Republic and Transvaal Colony which had some jurisdiction over Swaziland from 1894 to 1899 and 1903 to 1906. A number of official publications of the governments of the Union and the Republic of South Africa are relevant to the study of the former High Commission Territories, for example in the fields of banking and currency, customs, transportation, statistics, and postal and telecommunications services. These documents have been excluded, however, because they were not prepared by or subject to the authority of the governments of the three countries. Reports prepared by specialized agencies of the United Nations have also been excluded. The guide is divided into nine parts which include separate sections for Botswana and Lesotho under their earlier names, Bechuanaland and Basutoland, and a brief section of works by or about the High Commission Territories collectively. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author and title within each part except that publications concerning censuses, constitutions, development plans and planning, estimates, laws, and legislatures have been grouped together under these headings. The subdivision “Other Publications” at the end of some parts includes official and quasi-official documents cataloged by American libraries or found in bibliographies entered under personal or corporate authors. There is also an index, mainly to subjects and personal authors. Every effort has been made to identify the significant publications issued by or on behalf of the former High Commission Territories. The emphasis has been on locating copies held by the Library of Congress and other American libraries represented in the National Union Catalog. Location of items is indicated either by a Library of Congress call number or location symbol or, for material in another library, by the National Union Catalog symbol for the library (see “Key to Symbols”). Information about titles not located in American libraries has been gathered primarily from bibliographic sources such as the Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library and the Royal Commonwealth Society’s Catalogue. Also important for providing leads to government publications were the v annual reports on Basotoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland issued by the British Govern¬ ment (see complete citations in “Key to Sources Quoted”), and part 5 of Lord Hailey’s Native Administration in the British African Territories (item 776 in the bibliography). Several publications that were identified after the bibliography was numbered have been inserted in their appropriate sections and sequences and assigned the number of the preceding entry followed by an “a” or “b”. August 1970 Mildred Grimes Balima Key to Symbols CLU University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. CSt-H Stanford University Libraries, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford, Calif. CtY Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn. DAS U.S. Environmental Sciences Services Administration, Atmospheric Sciences Library, Silver Spring, Md. (formerly Weather Bureau) DC U.S. Department of Commerce Library, Washington, D.C. DI-GS U.S. Department of the Interior Library, Geological Survey Library, Washington, D.C. DJBF Joint Bank-Fund Library, International Monetary Fund and International Bank for Reconstruction & Development, Washington, D.C. DL U.S. Department of Labor Library, Washington, D.C. DLC U.S. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (used for uncataloged material) DLC-G&M U.S. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C. DLC-LL U.S. Library of Congress, Law Library, Washington, D.C. DNAL U.S. National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Md. DS U.S. Department of State Library, Washington, D.C. IEN Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. MB Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass. MBU Boston University, Boston, Mass. MH Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. MH-BA Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Adminis¬ tration Library, Cambridge, Mass. vii MiEM Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich. MiU-L University of Michigan, Law Library, Ann Arbor, Mich. MnU University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. NIC Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. NN New York Public Library, New York, N.Y. NN-Sc New York Public Library, Schomburg Collection (135th Street Branch), New York, N.Y. NNC Columbia University, New York, N.Y. NNC-T Columbia University, Teachers College, New York, N.Y. NNUN United Nations Library, New York, N.Y. viii Key to Sources Quoted Arnheim. Arnheim, J., comp. Swaziland, a bibliography. [Cape Town] University of Cape Town, School of Librarianship, 1963. 23 p. ([Cape Town] University of Cape Town. School of Librarianship. Bibliographical series) Z3607.S9A7 1963 First published 1950. Ashton. Ashton, Edmund Hugh. The Basuto; a social study of traditional and modern Lesotho. 2d ed. London, New York, Published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press, 1967.
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