The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 80
Page 6
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 11
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 15
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 21
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Page 39
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Sorry, this page's content is restricted.
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
India a political unit of another character | 14 |
A sense of responsibility restrained by economy | 22 |
Annexation of Fiji approved | 33 |
Colonial tariff policies and British Free Trade principles | 39 |
Annexation of Fiji completed | 46 |
British Residents established in the Malay States | 52 |
PAGE | 53 |
Philanthropic imperialism Shades of opinion | 351 |
Recrimination after Jamesons Raid | 357 |
39 | 364 |
legal business of the Office | 365 |
Selfgovernment extended in South Africa | 370 |
South African politics 190914 | 377 |
42 | 379 |
British East Africa 18951914 | 385 |
17 | 77 |
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 |
The Matabele War Swaziland | 174 |
CHAPTER VI | 181 |
PAGE | 185 |
Britains supremacy in the 1860s and her new competitors | 191 |
The Suez Canal coaling stations | 200 |
32 | 208 |
Trade with West Indies | 214 |
33 | 217 |
the Fair Trade League | 220 |
Salisburys imperial policy | 226 |
IMPERIAL DEFENCE 18701897 | 234 |
The Imperial Defence Act 1888 | 240 |
Naval contributions from the colonies in the 1890s | 246 |
The Hartington Commission | 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 |
Export of capital | 300 |
The American Tariff | 301 |
The Venezuela boundary dispute President Cleveland and Lord Salisbury | 304 |
A general Arbitration Treaty proposed | 311 |
the arbitration award | 318 |
American interests in China the RussoJapanese War | 326 |
British interests in Mexico | 332 |
CHAPTER X | 339 |
The old Liberal view | 345 |
Plans for development in the West Indies | 393 |
Cocoa palmoil The Colonial Office preserves peasant economy 468 | 394 |
DOMINION NATIONALISM AND THE EMERGENT COMMONWEALTH | 397 |
43 | 402 |
Discussions of Imperial defence | 403 |
Its constitution and procedure | 409 |
A changed situation in 1902 Chamberlain and Laurier | 415 |
The Liberals and the Conference of 1907 | 422 |
Relations with the Treasury and the War Office | 423 |
The Imperial Defence Conference 1909 | 429 |
44 | 432 |
The Imperial Conference becomes an institution | 436 |
Chamberlains policies | 443 |
the Conference of 1907 | 451 |
New products from the tropics | 457 |
Railways and telegraphs | 458 |
The Imperial Department of Agriculture | 461 |
Treasury control | 465 |
Cables and cable stations | 473 |
Asiatic migration | 481 |
Statistics of capital exports | 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 |
Public hostility to Germany | 530 |
The Middle East Division 1921 | 534 |
CHAPTER XIV | 538 |
The Algeçiras Conference 1906 | 545 |
Secretaries and permanent officials in the twentieth century | 632 |
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 |
PAGE | 722 |
908 | 825 |
THE OPENING OF TROPICAL AFRICA 18701885 | 850 |
CHAPTER IV | 879 |
931 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration American annexation Australia B.M. Add Bismarck Boers Britain British Government Cabinet Canada Canadian Canal Cape Cape Colony Carnarvon Cecil Chamberlain chap claims Coast Colonial Conference Colonial Office commercial Commons Company Congo danger defence Derby Dilke Dominion East Africa economic Egypt Empire England Europe European expansion exports favour federation force Foreign Office France free trade French frontier Gardiner German Germany's Gladstone Gladstone's Granville Hansard Harcourt Hicks Beach Ibid imperial imperialist important India industrial influence interests July Kimberley labour Laurier Liberal London Lord March ment Milner ministry mission Natal native naval negotiations Pacific Parl Parliament political Powers Prime Minister problem proposals protection protectorate Queen Victoria question Radical railway refused relations responsibility Rosebery Russia Salisbury Salisbury's Secretary secure self-governing colonies self-government seqq settlement ships South Africa Sudan tariff territory tion Transvaal treaty Triple Alliance Uganda Uitlander United Kingdom West Zanzibar Zealand