Select documents on the constitutional history of the British Empire and Commonwealth : the foundations of a colonial system of government
This first volume of a projected four-volume set details the impressive record of eight hundred years of English (later British) imperial rule. The editors have assembled the earliest documentary evidence necessary for a fundamental understanding of the priorities, devices, and frustrations in the British imperial experience. The documents balance the ideas, policies, and actions emanating from England with those evolving in the various colonies. This juxtaposition emphasizes the similarity of the problems experienced by the individual colonies. The documents also illustrate the relationship between constitutional developments and ideas in Britain, in individual colonies, and in the empire as a whole
Print Book, English, 1985-<2000->
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1985-<2000->
Documents in imperial history, no. 1-<8>
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volumes <1-7; volumes 8, part 1; in 8> ; 25 cm.
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v. 1. "The Empire of the Bretaignes," 1175-1688
v. 2. The classical period of the first British Empire, 1689-1783
v. 3. Imperial reconstruction, 1763-1840
v. 4. Settler self-government, 1840-1900
v. 5. The dependent empire and Ireland, 1840-1900
v. 6. The dominions and India since 1900
v. 7. The dependent empire, 1900-1948
v. 8. The end of empire, dependencies since 1948 : part 1. The West Indies, British Honduras, Hong Kong, Fiji, Cyprus, Gibraltar, and the Falklands
Vols. 6-7 also edited by John Darwin
Vol. 8, pt. 1 edited by Frederick Madden
Vols. 4-6, have imprint: New York : Greenwood Press