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Contents
CHAPTER I | 9 |
the dual mandate | 14 |
Withdrawal of garrisons from the colonies | 22 |
Lord Kimberley as Colonial Secretary | 33 |
West Africa and East Africa 18714 | 39 |
British and French adjustments in West Africa | 46 |
PAGE | 53 |
THE OPENING OF TROPICAL AFRICA 18701885 | 65 |
39 | 364 |
Milners reconstruction | 367 |
Chinese slavery the Liberal victory | 373 |
42 | 379 |
The representative principle in India the West Indies Ceylon | 386 |
British West Africa 18951914 | 392 |
Cocoa palmoil The Colonial Office preserves peasant economy 468 | 394 |
DOMINION NATIONALISM AND THE EMERGENT COMMONWEALTH | 397 |
British Residents established in the Malay States | 77 |
The Shipping Companies | 79 |
The United States matures as a Great Power | 84 |
19 | 88 |
INTERNATIONAL RIVALRY 18851895 | 95 |
The Treaty of San Stefano | 97 |
26 | 102 |
The Russians provoke the Second Afghan War | 104 |
British occupation of Egypt | 110 |
Bismarcks use of the colonial question in diplomacy | 116 |
29 | 118 |
The second phase of the Afghan War | 122 |
Parliament neither Jingoist nor Little Englander | 128 |
Gladstone declares for confederation | 134 |
Sir Charles Warrens expedition | 141 |
PROBLEMS OF INDIAN SECURITY | 145 |
The occupation and the Mahdist Revolt | 151 |
Effects of trade depression on public opinion | 158 |
Cautious movements in East Africa in the 1870s | 165 |
The South Africa Company as a strategic factor Administration of South | 172 |
Declining supremacy of the Imperial Parliament | 178 |
Fiscal autonomy in the selfgoverning colonies | 184 |
PAGE | 185 |
Emigration | 191 |
Railways and telegraphs | 199 |
The Suez Canal coaling stations | 200 |
32 | 208 |
Trade with West Indies | 214 |
33 | 217 |
the Fair Trade League | 220 |
Salisburys imperial policy | 226 |
A new defence policy for seaborne trade and coaling stations | 232 |
The Imperial Defence Act 1888 | 240 |
Naval contributions from the colonies in the 1890s | 246 |
The Army under Lord Wolseley | 253 |
The diplomatic isolation of England Salisburys effort to regain German | 255 |
Salisbury attempts to come to terms with France | 261 |
The Heligoland agreement over East Africa | 268 |
A rapprochement with France | 274 |
37 | 280 |
German criticism of Rosebery | 288 |
The negotiation and reception of the Treaty | 294 |
The American Tariff | 301 |
CHAPTER X | 339 |
SOUTH AFRICA | 354 |
43 | 402 |
Discussions of Imperial defence | 403 |
Plans for further conferences | 410 |
Chamberlains tariff schemes again rejected | 419 |
Procedure The Constitutional resolutions of 1907 | 426 |
44 | 432 |
Closer cooperation foreign policy discussed | 433 |
The ratio of imperial to other trade in the 1890s | 440 |
Laurier and the Conference of 1897 | 446 |
Plans for development in the West Indies | 449 |
Studying the economic resources of the Empire | 455 |
The Imperial Department of Agriculture | 461 |
Treasury control | 465 |
Cables and cable stations | 473 |
Asiatic migration | 481 |
British Trade still preeminent in 1914 | 487 |
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 |
Rapprochement with France | 530 |
CHAPTER XIV | 538 |
The Algeçiras Conference 1906 | 545 |
Attempts to regulate international action in principle | 667 |
The Berlin Act and the Congo State | 674 |
The right of occupation and administration | 683 |
The Alabama case and its juridical consequences | 689 |
British disputes with other countries put to arbitration | 695 |
The Second Hague Conference 1907 | 702 |
CHAPTER XIX | 711 |
Reform of the Civil Service 18479 | 717 |
Sir Henry Taylor R W Hay Sir James Stephen | 722 |
Separation of the War Office | 729 |
Closer relations between the Office and the Colonies | 735 |
The arrangement of Departments | 742 |
The Colonial Office building | 749 |
The formation of a distinct Dominions Department 1907 | 755 |
Scientific and research committees | 761 |
Events leading to the RussoTurkish | 766 |
The exchange of information | 767 |
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