Author: Charles Bowyer ADDERLEY (Baron Norton.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Review of “The Colonial Policy of Lord J. Russell's Administration,” by Earl Grey, 1853; and of subsequent colonial history
Author: Charles Bowyer ADDERLEY (Baron Norton.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
The Edinburgh Review
Author: British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell
Author: W.P. MorrellPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000855546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell (1930) examines British colonial administration during the administrations of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. In this period, 1815–41, new ideas were adopted and colonial policy was revolutionized. British attitudes towards colonization and Australia, New Zealand and North America underwent radical changes.
Colonies in Conflict
Author: Charles CawleyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881287
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 455
Book Description
The British Overseas Territories are the last remnants of the British Empire scattered around the globe. This book traces their little-known history from their discovery by European explorers to today’s controversies, wars and scandals, which are all rooted in the past. Argentina’s claim to the Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the British Antarctic Territory is tested against early documentation. The multinational development of Gibraltar provides the backdrop to Spain’s current position regarding the Rock. Ignoring the interests of Diego Garcia residents when a US naval base was constructed is traced to longstanding neglect of the island. The past development of the Cayman Islands and the Virgin Islands is compared to explain their different paths towards today’s success. The comparison between Bermuda’s current prosperity and St. Helena’s difficulties is traced to their different administrative evolution since the 17th century. Anguilla’s resistance to pirate attacks helped develop its resilience in opposing later political union with St. Kitts. The roots of Montserrat’s political problems are traced to complacent 18th century planters, while the seeds of recent scandals in Pitcairn Island and the Turks and Caicos were sown in the 19th century. The book reviews the internal and external conflicts which exacerbated the social, legal, economic and political problems suffered by these territories. Neglect by corrupt administrators created a two-speed British Empire in which the interests of the smaller colonies were largely ignored. The consequences for these territories of European dynastic wars, the slave trade and emancipation, the French Revolution, and the American War of Independence are all analysed. No other published history has tackled the subject in such broad terms. The study breaks new ground in academic research and provides original insights into identifying solutions to current problems.
Empire, Incorporated
Author: Philip J. SternPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988124
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Historians typically regard the British Empire as a state project aided by corporations. Philip Stern turns this view on its head, arguing that corporations drove colonial expansion and governance, creating an overlap between sovereign and commercial power that continues to shape the relationship between nations and corporations to this day.
Canada and Its Provinces: Index
Author: Canada and its Provinces
Author: Canada and Its Provinces
Author: Adam ShorttEmpire, Technology and Seapower
Author: Howard J. FullerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134200447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book examines British naval diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, showing how the mid-Victorian Royal Navy suffered serious challenges during the period. Many recent works have attempted to depict the mid-Victorian Royal Navy as all-powerful, innovative, and even self-assured. In contrast, this work argues that it suffered serious challenges in the form of expanding imperial commitments, national security concerns, precarious diplomatic relations with European Powers and the United States, and technological advancements associated with the armoured warship at the height of the so-called 'Pax Britannica'. Utilising a wealth of international archival sources, this volume explores the introduction of the monitor form of ironclad during the American Civil War, which deliberately forfeited long-range power-projection for local, coastal command of the sea. It looks at the ways in which the Royal Navy responded to this new technology and uses a wealth of international primary and secondary sources to ascertain how decision-making at Whitehall affected that at Westminster. The result is a better-balanced understanding of Palmerstonian diplomacy from the end of the Crimean War to the American Civil War, the early evolution of the modern capital ship (including the catastrophic loss of the experimental sail-and-turret ironclad H.M.S. Captain), naval power-projection, and the nature of 'empire', 'technology', and 'seapower'. This book will be of great interest to all students of the Royal Navy, and of maritime and strategic studies in general.
The Colonial Land and Emigration Commission
Author: Fred H. HitchinsPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512802476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The organization and personnel of the Emigration Board in England from 1840 to 1878, the administration of the Passenger Acts, and an analysis of general emigration during the period.