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The Dependent Empire and Ireland, 1840-1900 - Advance and Retreat in Representative Self-Government Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth--Volume V (Hardcover, New)
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The Dependent Empire and Ireland, 1840-1900 - Advance and Retreat in Representative Self-Government Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth--Volume V (Hardcover, New)
Series: Documents in Imperial History
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This volume--the fifth in a series providing key documents for the
constitutional history of the British Empire and Commonwealth from
the twelfth century to the twentieth--deals with those dependencies
of the Crown where for various reasons it was considered premature
to concede fully representative, let alone responsible, government,
and also with Ireland where the union with Britain made in 1800 was
coming under increasing strain. It covers the years from 1840 to
1900, in parallel with the companion volume IV which dealt with the
four main settler colonies. The documents in this volume illustrate
the ways in which Britain attempted to devise forms of government
it was thought would be, at least in the short term, more suitable
for dependencies which had few British settlers who might
successfully operate a representative system--and where the
majority of indigenous peoples needed protection against such a
minority. There was, however, a desire that such colonies should be
as self-governing and self-sufficient as possible, but a commitment
to trusteeship operated against any rule-of-thumb concession of the
sort of constitutions granted contemporaneously to settler
colonies. The first section of this volume focuses on British
imperial authority and the means whereby it attempted to exercise
supervision over the scattered parts of the dependent empire (the
so-called British settlements; protectorates under
extra-territorial jurisdiction; the use of chartered companies).
India is the subject of the second section: documents are here
included illustrating the transfer of power from a chartered
company back to the Crown and the hesitant moves toward
quasi-representation on the Indian councils. A third section is
concerned with the collapse of the old representative system in the
West Indian colonies and the experiment with a responsive
government in Jamaica. The fourth section shows what happened to
the original Crown colonies and to new ones acquired in this
period, together with adjacent spheres of influence and
protectorates. There is then a section dealing with a group of
special cases--the Ionian Islands, Cyprus, and Egypt, while the
final section deals with the unique problems of Ireland and the
attempts made to devolve a measure of internal self-government on
John Bull's other Island to appease growing nationalist and
inter-sectarian tensions.
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