The Dependent Empire and Ireland, 1840-1900: Advance and Retreat in Representative Self-Government Select Documents on the Constitutional History of T - Hardcover

by Frederick Madden (Editor), David Kenne Fieldhouse (Editor), David Fieldhouse (Editor)

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.

Author Biography

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,

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and Black Africa.