The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2

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John Holland Rose
CUP Archive, 1929 - Commonwealth countries
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... Vice - Master of Trinity College , Cambridge A sense of responsibility restrained by economy Separation under Gladstone's first administration Gladstone's idealism : the analogy of Greece Withdrawal of garrisons from the colonies ...
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Liberal criticisms : Gladstone's Midlothian campaign Lord Kimberley and the self - governing colonies The functions of a governor analysed PAGE 48 49 50 51 52 54 57 57 60 61 63 CHAPTER III THE OPENING OF TROPICAL AFRICA , 1870-1885 By ...
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The Russians provoke the Second Afghan War Lord Lytton's policy Gladstone's return to power . Western interests in Egypt and Tunisia Gladstone and the Dual Control in Egypt Bismarck and the Egyptian question Egypt for the Egyptians ...
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Proposals for instituting self - government in India Upper Burma , North Borneo • PAGE 145 146 147 149 150 150 151 152 155 DISSENSIONS OVER EGYPT Gladstone's intentions in Egypt The occupation and the Mahdist Revolt .

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Contents

CHAPTER I
17
The Barbados unrest of 1876
29
xiii
51
PAGE
53
CHAPTER III
65
Dual character of the Empire by 1870
67
Africa still the Dark Continent in 1870
71
Stanley and the Congo project
79
Politics at Westminster during the Boer
364
Chinese slavery the Liberal victory
370
South African politics 190914
377
Protectorates under the Foreign Office
385
British West Africa 18951914
392
The Commonwealth conception
405
The Alaska boundary the Behring Sea arbitration the Convention of 1909
424
368
435

The London Missionary Society
89
INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY 18851895
95
The Congress of Berlin
99
The Forward policy in India
109
17
117
The white mans grave
121
CHAPTER V
127
18
133
PROBLEMS OF INDIAN SECURITY
145
19
151
DISSENSIONS OVER EGYPT
156
20
157
The Irish issue and its effect on the Imperialists
166
CHAPTER II
181
PAGE
185
A sense of responsibility restrained by economy
187
Britains supremacy in the 1860s and her new competitors
191
colonial policy in the early 1890s
200
CHAPTER VII
230
The Navy and the Australian colonies the Western Pacific
240
Naval rivalry in the 1880s
253
Bismarcks intentions
259
The Army under Lord Wolseley
266
British Residents established in the Malay States
269
Export of capital
300
The Venezuela boundary dispute President Cleveland and Lord Salisbury
325
The old Liberal view
345
Chamberlain Rosebery Milner and their followers
351
Recrimination after Jamesons Raid
357
Attempts to regulate international action in principle
358
Railways and telegraphs
447
133
461
Cables and cable stations
473
Asiatic migration
481
British Trade still preeminent in 1914
487
Gladstone declares for confederation
488
Britains money on the wrong horse
494
The Italian defeat in Abyssinia and the Dongola expedition
501
Chamberlains initiative during Salisburys absence 1898
509
Britain Germany and Portugal 1898
515
The alliances in Europe draw apart
522
The AngloJapanese alliance 1902
529
396
530
465
533
The Entente Cordiale
535
The Algeciras Conference 1906
544
CHAPTER IX
629
THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND THE UNITED
659
Preliminaries of the Washington Treaty
693
THE COLONIAL OFFICE 18011925
711
Reform of the Civil Service 18479
717
Basutoland
743
466
781
Queenslands attempted annexation of New Guinea
787
86
831
89
841
The Australian Federal Council
843
93
847
CHAPTER IV
879
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John Holland Rose,Arthur Percival Newton,Ernest Alfred Benians,Henry Dodwell
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John Holland Rose,Arthur Percival Newton,Ernest Alfred Benians,Henry Dodwell
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TitleThe Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2
The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose
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