The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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To have assumed control of immense areas of tropical Africa and of groups of islands in the Pacific would have been repugnant to mid - Victorian statesmen , anxious to be rid of the responsibility and the cost of governing distant ...
To have assumed control of immense areas of tropical Africa and of groups of islands in the Pacific would have been repugnant to mid - Victorian statesmen , anxious to be rid of the responsibility and the cost of governing distant ...
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Broadly speaking , the general wish was to diminish responsibilities rather than to increase them . Mid - Victorian statesmen had a profound sense of responsibility and duty . It was their duty to give the colonies good government ...
Broadly speaking , the general wish was to diminish responsibilities rather than to increase them . Mid - Victorian statesmen had a profound sense of responsibility and duty . It was their duty to give the colonies good government ...
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The efforts of the latter to reverse the traditional policy of withdrawal and minimum responsibility , and to ... Exeter Hall criticised the Government for shirking its responsibilities for the tribal populations and subjecting them to ...
The efforts of the latter to reverse the traditional policy of withdrawal and minimum responsibility , and to ... Exeter Hall criticised the Government for shirking its responsibilities for the tribal populations and subjecting them to ...
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Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
DOMINION NATIONALISM AND THE EMERGENT COMMONWEALTH | 4 |
The AngloRussian agreement and its effects | 7 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 3 The Cambridge History of the British Empire, John Holland Rose |
| Editors | John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell |
| Publisher | The University Press, 1929 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2009 |
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