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The documents in this volume illustrate the ways in which Britain attempted to devise forms of government it was thought would be more suitable for dependencies that had few British settlers who might successfully operate a representative system--and where the majority of indigenous peoples needed protection against such a minority.
List of contents
Preface
Bibliographical Note
Secretaries of State
Imperial Authority and Supervision: Devices Old ad NewBritish Settlements
Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction
The Crown and its Nominees
The Chartered Company
India--From Company Rule to EmpireThe Genesis of QUASI-Representative Government
Paramountcy: Relations with the Princely States
External Affairs: Relations Across the Frontier
Representative Government: Collapse and RevivalThe "Ancient" West Indies
Jamaica
The Windward Islands
The Leeward Islands
British Honduras
The Leeward and Windward Islands: Moves Toward a Federal Union
Crown Colony GovernmentThe Original Crown Colonies: Ceylon
Malta
Trinidad
British Guiana
Mauritius and Seychelles
New Crown Colonies and Protectorates: British West Africa
The Colony of Hong Kong
The Colony of the Falkland Islands
The Colony of the Straits Settlements; The Malay States and Borneo Territories
The Colony of Fiji
Protectorates in East and Central-South Africa
Other DependenciesThe Ionian Islands: Completion of a Trust
Cyprus - A "Temporary Administration"
Egypt (and the Sudan) - A "Veiled Protectorate"
Ireland Under the Union: Failure of Attempts at DevolutionIndex
About the author
Frederick Madden was professorial fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1958 to 1984, and held the university post of reader in Commonwealth Government for all but one of the 28 years of its existence. He has now published eight volumes with Greenwood, covering the constitutional history of the British Empire and the Commonwealth from the 12th century to the end of the 20th century.
