Abstract: Contents: PART I:1. The African Challenge to Democracy. PART II: 2. Historical Background. 3. The Physical and Economic Environment. PART III: 4. The Traditionally Oriented System. 5. Political Organization Among the Akan. 6. Patterns of Indirect Rule. 7. The Politics of Indirect Rule. 8. Towards Autonomy Within the Commonwealth. 9. The Structures of Secular Government. 10. Patterns of Gold Coast Politics. I I. The Legislative Assembly in Action. 12. National Issues and Local Politics. PART IV: 13. Control Factors in Institutional Transfer. 14. Prospects of Gold Coast Democracy. 15. Ghana as a New Nation. Index.Originally published in 1955.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Abstract: Fearing that their "civilization" would be overwhelmed, a tiny enclave of whites in Central Africa rebelled against a power which a little more than twenty-five years before had ruled the largest empire the world had ever known. Robert C. Good provides an immensely readable account of the international politics of the Rhodesian rebellion which, as he demonstrates, put great political and financial strains on Great Britain, placed Zambia in mortal danger, almost destroyed the multiracial Commonwealth, and promoted an unprecedented involvement of the United Nations in programs of dubious effectiveness and doubtful wisdom.The complex sequence of events which led to the "unilateral declaration of independence" of November 1965 and the settlement of November 1971 are probed, and the policies of the British and Rhodesian governments analyzed, particularly the actions and responses of Harold Wilson. Above all, the Rhodesian crisis is placed in its international setting to show that the failure to impose a transition towards majority rule in Rhodesia has meant that a significant chance to reverse present trends in Southern Africa towards the hardening of racial attitudes and erosion of African confidence in Western intentions has been lost.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Abstract: (1973). John Robert Seeley and British imperial history. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 191-211.

Abstract: My vision is a commonwealth in which human needs are discovered, human purposes formulated, and human problems handled by political processes better adapted to the requirements of a rapidly changing technological society than are participative, representational, or bureaucratic processes alone. I am not saying that this commonwealth is one in which human needs are satisfied, human purposes achieved, and human problems solved. There is a world of difference between discovering and satisfying needs, between formulating and achieving purposes, between handling and solving problems. The vocabulary is experiential rather than existential, processual rather than programmatic.

Abstract: (1973). Courts and conflict in an Indian city: A study in legal impact. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 121-139.

Abstract: (1973). The independence bargain: Kenya Europeans and the land issue 1960–1962. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 99-120.

Abstract: ALL THE ARTS in England were enlivened with a resurgence of interest and an influx of new talent under the patronage of Charles II after the long interruption of Puritan rule. This artistic revival included a gradual renewal of architectural classicism introduced to England by Inigo Jones and interrupted by the hiatus in building under the Commonwealth. Spurred in London by the rebuilding which followed the Great Fire of 1666, the movement spread from the court throughout the British Empire by means of architectural handbooks. How-to-do-it books

Abstract: S INCE i962, four small South Pacific countries have become independent and assumed membership in the Commonwealth of Nations. One or two more are expected to do so within the next few years, while still others are now, or are shortly to become, fully self-governing. All of these new nations have had a limited, though increasing, experience with international cooperation. Most have a disposition to explore the degree to which further regional cooperation promises assistance in solving the important problems with which they are faced. To what extent can and do existing regional associations offer a prospect of effective help? What other sources of assistance have these countries? And to what extent is membership in the Commonwealth likely to be a factor in their further development? The new Commonwealth countries of the Pacific are Fiji, Nauru, Tonga, and Western Samoa. Cook Islands is fully self-governing, and both Papua/ New Guinea (P/NG) and the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) are expected to become independent in the not distant future. Fiji achieved independence and joined the Commonwealth and the United Nations in 1970. Comprising a land area of approximately 7,000 square miles within some 275,000 square miles of ocean, it has a population of something over half a million-the majority of Indian origin-growing during the period i963-68 at an average rate of 3.I per cent a year. The Sixth Development Plan hopes to see the growth rate down to 2.3 per cent through population control measures begun in i964 and still pursued with vigor.' The most highly developed of the newly independent Pacific countries, Fiji is still troubled by a land shortage in rural areas; a need for greater efficiency in agricultural land use; unemployment problems; the uncertain future of sugar, long a mainstay of the economy; the need to regulate outside investment, particularly in the vital tourist industry; various problems con-

Abstract: Routine refereeing by peers of manuscripts submitted to scholarly journals is a logical and effective device that can obviate ‘crankiness, irrelevance and gross incompetence’ [Ziman, 1970a] on the one hand and minimize editorial arbitrariness on the other. As reviewed by Zuckerman and Merton [1971], the device has historical roots that extend back to the beginning of the first scholarly journals, such as Transactions of the Royal Society, and Journal des Scavans. The growth of science since World War II and the pressure of burgeoning manuscript submission appear to have been important factors in making automatic peer review nearly universal in American and British Commonwealth natural science journals and in international journals influenced by Anglo-North Americans. A 1962 survey cited by Zuckerman and Merton [1971] found that 71% of 156 physical and biological science journals in 13 countries made use of referees.

Abstract: The Prosopography of the Tudor University The social composition and role of the English universities in the sixteenth century has been the object of growing scholarly interest for over a generation. It is probably just to trace this development to two essays written by Hexter over twenty years ago.I In the first of these, on the education of the aristocracy in England, France, and the Netherlands, he stated the view that is most immediately relevant to the present discussion. The landed classes of northern Europe adapted to the challenge offered by the new monarchs by responding to humanistic criticism of their ignorance and barbarism and by pursuing formal education in schools and universities for the first time in large numbers, not so much for the service of a princely court as for the service of the commonwealth. In I970, Kearney advanced a number of new hypotheses about the response of the Tudor university to the social changes of sixteenth-century England. Among his hypotheses is the view that between 1500 and I600, the universities "were transformed from being institutions geared to training for a particular profession into institutions which acted as instruments of social control." 2 It is clear from this and many of Kearney's challenging theses that we are about to develop refined theories about Tudor Oxford and Cambridge. It is important, therefore, to look closely at the work that has been done, to decide what it is that we do know, and to suggest how we may best proceed from here. The results of such an inquiry are not altogether reassuring, although Hexter's general thesis has never been seriously challenged. It is commonly agreed that the English humanists successfully domesticated the notion that the aristocracy should be retrained for service in the state, that this ideal was generally adopted by the propertied classes, and that

Abstract: (1973). Colonial rule and political culture in modern Ashanti. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 3-27.

Abstract: (1973). Botswana's strategy for development: An assessment of dependence in the southern African context. Journal of Commonwealth Political Studies: Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 214-230.

Abstract: t surprisingly, the question of land tenure in the northern half of Vietnam has received considerable attention from Soviet scholars. The output of published writings in this sector is relatively large and the quality is higher than average. The earliest piece is an unsigned article "Agrarnaya reforma i pod em selskogo khozyaistva v DRV" (Agrarian Reform and the Upswing of the Rural Economy in the DRV), Mezhdunarodnaya zhizn (International Affairs), 1956, No. 4, pp. 126-127, which is a brief note, heavy on the statistical side, sketching the mechanics of land redistribution above the 17th parallel and the consequent rise in the gross national output of farm produce attributed to the 'better organization of peasant work, the intense enthusiasm animating the liberated masses, etc. A handy comparative perspective on the North Vietnamese experience in this doman vis-a-vis other member states of the "socialist Commonwealth" is provided in at least two Soviet textbooks on land law. The first, Zemelnoe pravo (Land Law), edited by N. D. Kazantsev, (Moscow, Gosyurizdat, 1958), contains a separate chapter on the legislative foundations of land relations in the foreign socialist states (pp. 247-276) divided into three parts: 1) the peculiarities of land transformations in the foreign socialist states (general characteristic) ; 2) legislative foundations of land relations in the socialist states of Asia (pp. 251-261) ; and, 3) legislative foundations of land relations in the socialist states of Europe (pp. 261-276). The Asian and European theatres are covered on a countryiby-country basis and the DRV is allocated just over three pages (pp. 255-258): the treatment concentrates on setting forth the provisions of the 1953 statute on land reform. The second, Zemelnoe pravo (Land Law), edited by G. A. Aksenenok, (Moscow, "Yuridicheskaya literature," 1969), approaches the topic of the fundamental principles of land law in certain foreign socialist countries se-

Abstract: (1973). Canadian attitudes toward empire settlement, 1919–1930. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 237-251.