David Fieldhouse

Settler Self-Government 1840-1900

The Development of Representative and Responsible Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the
Herausgeber: Madden, Frederick; Fieldhouse, David Kenne

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Produktbeschreibung

As the previous volumes in this series have shown, Britain's system of unfederal government had, by 1840, passed a cultural crossroads. There had been a parting of the ways in which the old representative system that had provided rule for colonies (including those in America and the Caribbean) in earlier centuries was being superseded. In this fourth volume Madden and Fieldhouse focus on those colonies in North America, Australasia, and South Africa where British subjects had settled in considerable numbers, and where the restrictions of the old system had been outgrown and representative and responsible government was developing toward full self-government. This fourth volume illustrates the larger themes in the evolution of self-government in these colonies. The book examines the theme of self-government through four separate sections. Section I approaches the issue from the British viewpoint, surveying diverse concepts of the empire, the changes in imperial institutions, and attitudes toward trade, defense, and legal uniformity. Section II examines the evolution of, and later developments in, responsible government in these settled colonies, and Section III looks at the extension of self-government beyond the confines of internal domestic affairs. Finally, Section IV concentrates on the experiments in federal government among the contiguous groupings of colonies in North America, Australasia, and South Africa. The book also includes a preface with background and historical data, a note on primary and secondary sources, a listing of Secretaries of State from 1839 to 1903, and a comprehensive index. As with all the books in this series, this volume will be an important reference source for courses in British history as well as in the history of colonization. It will also be a valuable addition to university, research, and public libraries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 870
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1453g
• ISBN-13: 9780313273261
• ISBN-10: 031327326X
• Artikelnr.: 21809761

Autorenporträt

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 Developments, 1774-1834. DAVID FIELDHOUSE is Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, the senior imperial chair at Cambridge University, and Fellow of 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 and Unilever Overseas, which won the annual award of the Business Archives Council in 1980.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Secretaries of State (September 1839-September 1903) Imperial
Authority and Colonial Autonomy: Some General Problems The Nature of the
Imperial Association Metropolitan Administration The Development of
Colonial Responsible Government The Assertion of Colonial Commercial
Autonomy The Problem of Imperial and Colonial Defence The Extension of the
Law of England The Achievement and Working of Responsible Government
British North America Australia New Zealand South Africa The Extension of
Self-Government British North America Australia New Zealand South Africa
Movements Relating to, and the Working of, Federal Government British North
America Australia New Zealand--The Collapse of a Quasi-Federal Government
and the Rejection of Australasian Federation South Africa--A First Attempt
at Federation Index