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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.
Table des matières
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
A propos de l'auteur
FREDERICK MADDEN is Emeritus Reader in Commonwealth Government, Nuffield College, Oxford University. He was previously Beit Lecturer in Colonial History and is the author or coeditor of
Oxford and the Idea of Commonwealth,
Australia and Britain, Imperial Constitutional Documents, 1765-1965, A Supplement, and
British Colonial Developmets, 1774-1834.
DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of the Jesus College. He is the former Beit Lecturer, successor to Frederick Madden, and is the author of
The Colonial Empires,
Economics and Empire, 1830-1914,
ilever Overseas
and
Black Africa.
