A short history of British expansion: 2 The modern Empire and Commonwealth
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xiv
Prefaces to the Sixth and Third Editions
-·*.-- xv
PART I
THE FOUNDATION OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
і. Тни
Changinq Woeld: Thb Beitish Isles,
1783-1870 - 3
(i) The Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions
Effects of the American secession
..·.···
S
Other factors making for change
......· 3-4
The
Industrial
Revolution
:
ooeanio trade
;
factory enterprise
· ·
б
-β
The ootton manufacture
;
machinery
;
iron output
;
mining
- · 6-7
The transport revolution
:
roads
;
canals
;
railways
;
docks
- · 7
Woollen and other manufactures
.·-.-·· 7-8
World-economy and dependence on other countries
- · · - 8
The Agricultural Revolution
;
inoreased output and enclosures
· - 8-10
Sooial and economio effects of the wars of
1793-1815 . · - · 10
(ü)
The People
Growth of British population
........10
Diverse views of sooial effects of the revolutions
.... 11
Causes of increase in population: town and country
:
death rates and
birthrates
...........11-13
Growth of Irish population
........ 13
The emigrants of the nineteenth century
· . · · · . 13-14
(Ш)
The Fundamental Ideas
Two phases of national outlook,
pre-
and post-1870
· · · 14
The idealists of the earlier period
.......15
The early free traders
;
Adam Smith s Wealth of Nations
... 15-16
Pitt s reforms, attempted and effeoted
...... 16-17
Free trade after
1815 ;
Huskieson s
reformi
..... 17
The Manchester School
;
Peel
;
the Corn Laws
..... 17-18
Repeal of the Navigation Aots
........18
Laissez-faire and the Middle Class
.......18-19
The ideal of equality
.........19
The humanitarian movement and social reform
.... 20
The campaigns against the slave trade and slavery
- 20-22
Government of dependencies
;
trial of Hastings
;
Mill s British India
22-3
Missionary Societies
:
The Clapham Sect
......23-4
Conflicting ourrents of opinion
........24
П.
The
Снаношо
World
i Thb
Oceans
...... 25
Expansion of
oceanio
enterprise
.......25
Early exploration of the Pacifio
....... 25-6
Improvement of shipping and navigation
·--··· 26
Pacifio exploration in the eighteenth century
..... 26-7
Cook s voyages
:
Russians and Spaniards in the North Pacific
- · 27-8
California
:
Nootka Sound
:
Vancouver, Mackenzie,
La Perouse
· 28-9
Oceanic aspect of the wars of
1793-1815 ;
colonies captured
- · 29-30
The settlement of
1914-15........30-1
Raffles in Java and at Singapore
....... 31-2
The Slave Trade after
1807........32
Activities of the missionary societies
.......33
V
vi
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Great Britain and Latin America; emancipation of the Spanish
colonies
........... 33-4
The opening of China and Japan
....... 35-6
The African coasts
..........36
Change in the nature of oceanic trade
...... 37-8
New
trades t
tea, rice, jute, colza
.......38
Pacific whaling and trading
........38-9
Australia and the reoruitment of Kanakas
..... 39
South American nitrates and guano
.......40
Other new trades
:
the emigrant traffio
...... 40
Development of sailing ships
ι
British and American competition
. 41-2
Development of steamships
........ 42-3
The overland route and the Suez Canal
...... 43
Ш.
The
Colonul
Office and its Critics
......44
Changes in administrative mechanism of the colonies,
1782-1854 - 44
Important Colonial Secretaries and Under Secretaries
... 44
Effeots of Amerioan secession on imperial policy
.... 44-6
Opinions of George Chalmers on imperial policy
.... 46-7
Representative government after
1783 ...... 48
Factors adverse to mercantile imperialism
..... 48
Administration of colonies after
1783 ...... 48-9
Emigration polioy
;
Wilmot
Horton
.......49-50
The Radical imperialists of
1830 .......60
Buller s attack on the Colonial Office and Sir James Stephen
· · 60-1
Wakefleld s theory of colonization
......- 61-2
Decay of the old colonial system and progress of the new ideas-
. 62-3
Abolition of restrictions and monopolies
...... 63
Imperial preference attacked by the Manchester School
... 63-4
Influence of the humanitarians
........64
Achievements and decline of the Radical imperialists
... 65
Triumph of the Manchester School
.......65
Free trade and colonial self-government
...... 55-6
Imperial defence
..........56
Pessimism and optimism
;
views of statesmen
;
the situation in
1870 66-7
IV. Canada feom Conquest to Dominion
...... 68
(i) The French and British
Canadas,
1760-1815
The French population
;
Murray s rule
;
Carleton
.... 68-9
The Quebeo Act,
1774......... 59-60
American invasion,
1775-6;
Treaty of Versailles,
1782-3 - - · 60-1
The United Empire Loyalists
........ 61-2
The Maritime Provinoes
;
Upper Canada
...... 62
Constitutional problem
;
constitution of
1791 ;
its defects
... 63-4
The War of
1812-15.......... 64-5
(ii) The Failure of Representative Government,
1815-1840
Causes of unrest
.......... 66
Lower Canada
ι
nationalist aspirations
t
executive and assembly at
issue
............ 66-7
Upper Canada
:
the Family Compaot
t
progress towards revolt
- 68-9
The rebellions of
1837......... 70
Lord Durham s mission
:
the Report
ι
the constitution of
1840 · - 70-2
Material growth of Canada
........72
CONTENTS
vii
VAGI
(Ш)
The Establishment of Responsible Government
The Implications of Responsible Government
- .... 72
Period of indeoision,
1840-6 ........73
Lord Elgin s policy
ι
difficulties surmounted,
1847-64 . * . 73-4
(iv)
Confederation,
1854-67
Disadvantages of the Union
t
the Maritime
Provinces
· · * 74-5
Movement towards confederation
....... 75-6
The federal constitution
......... 76
The Dominion of Canada,
1867
1
comparison with the American Union
76-7
(v) The Growth of Canada
Penetration of the North-West
t
rivalry and onion of the Companies
:
Manitoba
........... 77-8
The Maine and Oregon boundaries
.......70
British Colombia and Vancouver Island
...--- 79-80
Extinction of the Hudson s Bay Company s sovereignty
ι
Bieľs
revolt
80
Later provinces,
1873-1912 :
railways
...... 80-2
V. The Foundation or
тни
Austbalian Colonies
.... 83
(i) Circumstances leading to Colonization
Early exploration and theories
;
New Holland
- - ... 83
Eighteenth century projectors
ι
Campbell
;
De Brosses
;
Callenđer
;
Dalrymple-
.......... 84-5
Importance of Cook s discoveries
.......85
The conviot problem
:
the plan for a new plantation colony
· « 86-7
Phillip s expedition,
1787-8
1
his instructions
..... 87
(ii) The Foundation of New South Walea and Van Diemen s Land,
1788-1823
The landing in New South Wales,
1788...... 87
The penal settlement
:
early struggles and progress
.... 88-9
Van Diemen s Land,
1803......... 89-90
Bligh and Maoquarie
!
expansion of New South Wales
... 90-1
Administrative changes,
1823 :
the population
..... 91
(Ш)
New South Wales and
ив
Offshoots,
1824-69
Characteristics of the period
....... . 92
Exploration
ι
in eastern Australia
t
central Australia: western
Australia
........... 92-4
Squatters, farmers and townsmen
ι
the hind question
ι
early land
legislation
........... 94-6
Foundation of Queensland
........ 96-7
Foundation of Victoria
.........97
Progress of Van Diemen s Land
....... 97-8
The end of transportation
........98
Representative government,
1842, 1850 <
Victoria a separate colony,
1851...........-99
Discovery of gold
ι
its effects
........ 100
Responsible government,
1855
1
Queensland a separate colony,
1859 · 100-1
(iv)
Western and South Australia
Theories of colonization exemplified
....... 102
Plans for a western oolony
:
the Swan River Settlement,
1829 . 102-3
Misfortune and recovery
:
transportation
ι
Wakefield s criticism*
. 103-4
Plans for South Australia,
1831-6 -...... 104-5
Foundation and finanoial crisis,
1836-41
1
rapid progress,
1842-55 - 1054
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VI.
Тни
Colonization of New Zealand
·.··... 107
The West Indian precedent
........ 107
Early settlers
:
the Maoris
:
the missionaries
· » . . . 107-8
Karly
attempts at control
:
the French projects
· · · 108-9
The Wakefield plans
:
hostility of the humanitarians
... 109
The New Zealand Company takes action
:
annexation,
1840 - · 110
Complications of the land question
:
Treaty of Waitangi
- . 110-11
Energy of the Company
:
discontent of the Maoris
- · .
-Ill
Hobson, Shortland and Fitzroy
......111-12
Sir George Grey
:
progress of colonization
:
Otago and Canterbury
112-14
Dissolution of the Company,
1851 .......
Ц4
Representative and responsible government,
1853, 1856 ... 114
The Maori wars
:
Grey s second governorship
..... 115
VU.
Dutoh and British South Africa
....... 110
(i) Early History to
1836
The Portuguese period
...... ...
lie
English and Dutch
:
the Dutoh colony,
1652-1795 ... 116-18
The British conquest,
1795-1814.......118
Problems of the Cape Colony
:
the native races
... 118-20
The Albany Settlement,
1819-21.......120
Dr. Philip and the colonists
:
emancipation of the slaves,
1833-4 · 120-1
D Urban and the Colonial Office
:
annexation and withdrawal
* · 121-2
(ii) The two Colonies and the two Republics,
1836-72
The Great Trek and its causes
........ 122-5
Foundation of Orange Free State and Transvaal
.... 125
The Boers in Natal
:
the Zulus
:
Natal a British colony,
1843 · - 125-7
Annexation of the Orange River Sovereignty,
1848 .... 127
Independence of the Transvaal and Orange Free State,
1852-4 - - 127-8
The Cape
:
representative government
ι
Sir George Grey and federa¬
tion
...........128-30
Responsible government,
1872 :
native problems
.... 130-1
Natal
:
the Orange Free State
:
the Transvaal
..... 131-2
VIII.
India and the Fab East
......... 133
(i) The Extension of British Control over the Indian Peninsula,
1785-1858
The Company s position in
1785 :
the native powers
.... 133-4
Cornwallis s reforms
:
war with Mysore,
1790-2 - .... 134-6
Sir John Shore,
1793-8.........136
Crisis of
1798 :
Wellesley
ι
conquest of Mysore
:
annexation and sub¬
sidiary alliances
:
war with
Marathas,
1803-4 :
resignation of
Wellesley
...........136-8
A conservative policy,
1805-14......·- 138-9
Hastings
:
the Gurkhas
:
the last Maratha War,
1817-18 · · 139
Burma,
1823-6 :
Lord William Bentmck
;
Macaulay
- . . 139-40
The North-West Frontier
:
first Afghan War,
1839-42 - - 140-1
Annexation of
Sind, 1843 :
Sikh War,
1845-6 ;
annexation of Punjab,
1848-9...........141-2
Burma,
1851-2 :
Dalhousie s annexations,
1848-56 :
period of dis¬
content
...........142-4
The Mutiny,
1857-8 :
end of the Company s rule
.... 144-6
(ii) The Indian Ocean and the Far East
Ceylon
onder
British role
........145-6
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мов
Mauritius :
the Seychelles
........ 146-7
The Straits Settlements,
1824-67.......147
Borneo
:
Sarawak
:
Labuan
....... 147-50
British trade with China
:
the war of
1839-42 :
the Treaty Porte
· 160-2
Seoond China War,
1856-60 ;
deoay of the Chinese Empire
· · 153
IX. The West Ixdies
··......·· 154
Decline in relative importance of the colonies
- « · 154
West Indian trade with United States, from
1783 .... 154-5
Effect of British free-trade policy
....... 155-6
The British planters and their competitors
:
the French Revolutionary
War
............156-7
The abolition of the slave trade, and of slavery
.... 157-9
Effects of emancipation: indentured labour
.... 169-60
Constitutional development
ι
the old representative governments
* 160-1
Rebellion in Jamaioa,
1865 - -......161-2
Abolition of the representative system in most of the islands
· · 162
The Barbados constitution
........ 162-3
The present grouping of the oolonies
....... 163
PART II
THE GROWTH OP COMMONWEALTH AND EMPIRE
I. Wobld Competition akd the Peneteation or the Continents
. 167
The Great Powers after
1870........ 167
Industrialism and the new imperialism
...... 168
Improvement of steamshipe
......- - 168-9
Great railway systems
:
in Europe
;
the U.S. and Canada
;
Siberia and
Turkestan; India; Africa
.......169-72
Effects of railway enterprise
........ 172-3
Firearms and sanitation
.........173
European oontrol in North Africa
....... 173-4
Exploration of Central Africa
........ 174-6
The Berlin Conference,
1884-5 :
spheres of influence
.... 175-6
Partition of East Africa
......... 176-7
German and French methods in Africa
:
Portuguese
efforts
· · 177-8
The Congo under King Leopold
...... 178-9
Burma and
Indo-China
........ 179-80
The Russians in Siberia and Central Asia
...... 180
The opening of Japan and China
....... 180-1
Japan s aggression against China
....... 181-2
European emigration and colonial policies
..... 182
Π.
The
Empiee under
Disraeli, Gladstone and Salisbury (The Motheb
Countet, Asia, and
Tropical
Afbioa)
.... 183
(і)
Imperial Ideas,
1870-95
Foundations of a new imperial sentiment
- · · · . .183
Views of Disraeli and Gladstone
....... 183-4
The Second Reform Act
(1867)
and democratic politics
... 184-5
Liberal and Conservative ministries,
1868-95..... 185-6
Imperialist writers and imperial federation
..... 186-7
(ii) The Levant, Egypt, the Canal, and the Indian Frontier»
The Eastern Question
:
British and Russian interests
:
Crimean Wai
- 187-8
Egypt under Irnnail
:
Disraeli s purchase of Suez Canal shares
- - 188-0
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The
Bastem
Question
revived
ι
the
Berlin Congrese,
1878 · · 189
Bossia on the Afghan frontier
>
policy of Lord Lytton
:
Afghan War,
1878-80..........189-91
Later Russian activities
:
the Indian frontier tribe«
.... 191-2
Final conquest of Burma,
1885-6.......192
Egypt.
1879-83 :
the Dual Control and its failure
:
British policy
· 192-3
The Sudan
:
the Mahdi e revolt
;
the death of Gordon
. 194
(Ш)
Malaya and Borneo
The Malay principalities
:
anarchy and British intervention
· · 195-6
The Federated Malay States
:
Johore and the unfederated protectorates
196-7
North Borneo
t
the origin of British interests
· . . . . 197-8
The British North Borneo Company,
1881 . . . · . 198-9
(iv)
West Africa
British West
África
t
Gambia
ι
Sierra Leone
· . . . 199-200
Gold Coast, Aehanti and Northern Territories
.... 200-02
The Niger
...........202-3
The
Boyal
Niger Company
........203
Anglo-French rivalry
......... 203-4
(v) East Africa
Earlier history of East African coast
t
the Sultanate of Zanzibar
> 204
East African slave trade
.........204-6
Eirk at Zanzibar
..........206
British and Germans
:
Carl Peters
....... 206
German East
África
:
Treaty of
1886 ...... 207
British East Africa Company
........208
Uganda, East Africa and treaty of
1890......208-9
Nyasaland
..........209-10
Ш.
Тни
Empiee
tjhdbb
Disraeli,
Gladstone, asd Salisbury
(Тни
Bouthebn Hemisphere)
■ ■ . . . . . -211
(і)
Australia, New Zealand and the
Pacifie
Eelnctance of Australian colonies to federate
- · · · .211
Australian politics
ι
influence of Chartism
;
fiscal protection
· . 212
Squatters and farmers
:
Asiatic immigration
ι
land legislation
· 213-14
Trades unions: Labour Party
ι
eduoation
..... 214
Steamships
:
cables
:
railways
- ...... 214-15
New Zealand from
1867:
state enterprise
:
population
і
cold storage
216-16
The Paoifio Islands and their problems
...... 216
Tahiti: the missionaries and the French,
1797-1888 - - . -216
New Caledonia
t
French convict stations
..... 216-17
Fiji
t
annexation,
1874
1
constitution
:
the High Commissioner
- 217-18
New Hebrides
:
French aims and Australian protests
:
the solution
■ 218
The Sandwich Islands
:
annexation by U.S.,
1898 . - - 218-19
German traders in the Pacifio
........ 219
The New Guinea question
:
British difficulties
:
disgust in Australia
:
annexations in
1884-8 ....... 219-21
Samoa
>
rivalry of three powers
t
partition
..... 221
(ii) South Africa
A new period from
1871 ;
mining and railway!
..... 222
The native problem
:
lack of co-ordinated polioy
.... 222-3
Federation advocated by Lord Carnarvon,
1874 :
abortive conference,
1876............223-4
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The Transvaal
onder Burgera
:
the Zulu peril
· · 226
The
Permissive Bill
ι
Shepstone annexes the Transvaal,
1877 · · 225-6
Zulu War,
1879 :
Disraeli s embarrassment
:
Gladstone s speeches
- 226-7
Gladstone s polioy
:
the Boer War,
1880-1 :
the Transvaal independent
227-8
The Africander Bond
:
German expansion
:
Boer treks
... 228
Rhodes and his ambitions
і
Paul Exuger
......228-9
British Sooth Africa Company,
1888-9 ;
Rhodesia
- . . 229-30
Changes in the Transvaal
:
gold mines
:
the Uitlanders
... 230-1
Movement towards
а
crisis,
1896 ...···· 231
IV. Tbb
Empiee
шгоев
Chamberlain
....... 232
(і)
The Undeveloped Estate
Joseph Chamberlain and his imperial doctrine
-··.·- 232-3
Plight of the British West Indies
.......233
The sugar bounties defeated
:
eduoative work
:
loans
:
prosperity
restored
...........234
West and East Africa
ι
medioal and agricultural research
:
railways
- 234-5
Scope and permanence of the Chamberlain policy
.... 235
(ii) Egypt and the Sudan
Lord Cromer s task
:
the regeneration of Egypt (from
1883) . · 236-7
The Sudan under Mahdism
:
Kitchener s reconquest,
1896-8 - · 237
The Frenoh on the Nile
:
the Fashoda crisis
.....238
(iii)
The South African War
Rhodes, Chamberlain and Kruger
....... 239
The Jameson Raid,
1895-6 ;
preparations for war
:
the Free State
239-41
The war,
1899-1902 :
the three stages
:
the peace terms
... 241-2
Imperial significance of the struggle
....... 243
(iv)
The Two Dominion«
Canada from
1867 :
relations with U.S.
......244
Macdonald
and the National Polioy
:
union with U.S. rejected
- · 244-6
The Alaska boundary
:
growth of population
:
mixed immigration
- 246-0
Newfoundland
:
constitution
:
fishery disputes
.....246-7
Australia
:
movement towards federation
:
adverse factors
- - 247-8
Sir Henry
Parkes
and federation
:
the project revived and achieved
· 248-9
The Commonwealth constitution
.......249-6
(r) The Colonial Conference and the Chamberlain Programme
Origin of the Colonial Conference
......· 260
Conference of
1887 ;
defence
:
Conference of
1894 ;
preference
- · 260-1
Conferences of
1897
and
1902 :
growth of imperial co-operation
- 262-3
Chamberlain s polioy of
1903 :
preference and protection
:
the general
elections of
1906
and
1910.......263-4
V.
Fkom
the Entente
Cordiale
то тяв
First
Wohls
Wab
... 266
(i)
The Ententes with France and Russia
The Venezuela questions
:
relations with U.S.
..... 256-6
German relations
:
the Bagdad Railway
ι
tariffs
:
the German fleet
- 256-7
Friendship with France
:
the questions for settlement
- - - 257
Convention and Declarations of
1904 :
criticisms
:
later agreements
- 268
Agreements with Russia,
1907........ 268
(ii) Chreat Britain and the
Dominione
Two new dominions
:
New Zealand and South Africa
... 259
South Africa
:
eoonomio federation,
1903 :
Chinese labour
- 259-60
idi
CONTENTS
ЄНАГТВ»
Responsible government in Transvaal and Free State,
1907 · - 260
Reasons for political
anion
:
the Union Act,
1909-10 ;
the constitution
260-2
Proposed Imperial Council and Commission,
1906 .... 262
Imperial Conference of
1907 :
imperial naval development
- - 262-3
Imperial Conference of
1911 :
the menace of war
:
Ward s proposed
parliament of defence
:
autonomous co-operation preferred
- 263-4
(iii)
Africa
Egyptian
progrese
and nationalist agitation
..... 264-5
Conquest and civilization of Nigeria: the slavery question
:
economia
change
...........265-7
East Africa and Uganda
t
the Indian question
· · · 267-8
The Congo
:
Morocoo
ι
Tripoli
........268-9
VI. India,
1858-1914...........270
Cessation of internal warfare after the Mutiny
.....270
Indian Councils Act,
1861 :
the post-Mutiny Viceroys
ι
the native
states
...........270-1
Railway development and industrialization
· · · · .271
Measures against famine
----..... 271-3
Education
:
land tenure
t
sanitary reform
· · · · 273-4
Royal Titles Act,
1876-7.........274
Effects of peace and western education: the Indian National Congress
274-6
Demand for reform
:
government policy
:
Councils Act,
1892 - . 275-6
TUak s agitation
..........276-7
Lord
Curzon,
1898-1905
¡
the North-West Frontier Province
:
univer¬
sity reform
:
partition of Bengal
:
dispute with Lord Kitchener
- 277-81
Causes of unrest
:
education: journalism: general Asiatic sentiment
281-2
Agitation in the Poona region, Bengal and the Punjab
... 282-3
Lord Morley s secretaryship
ι
Councils Act,
1909 :
the King in India,
1911............283-4
Vu.
Thb Imperial Aspects
οϊ
the Ftssi World
Wab
.... 286
Imperial reaction to the crisis
:
the dominions
:
India
:
the colonies
- 285-6
South Africa
:
firmness of Botha
:
the rebellion of
1914 - - - 287-8
The military effort of the dominions summarized
.... 288
Canada
:
military statistics
:
the French Canadians
:
Sir R.
Borden
- 288-9
Australia
:
statistice
:
the
referendums
:
Mr. Hughes
· · 289-90
New Zealand
:
statistics
:
the National Government
- . · - 291
South Afrioa
:
Botha and Smut*
....... 291
The Indian war effort
......... 292
Conquest of the German colonies and Turkish Asia
.... 292-3
The Versailles Treaties
:
the mandates
......294
Imperial Conference of
1917 :
federation or co-operation
s
the consti¬
tutional resolution
t
other transactions
..... 294-6
Imperial Conference of
1918........296-7
The Peaoe Conference,
1910 :
dominion nationhood recognized
:
the
new constitutional position
....... 297-8
Opinions of dominion statesmen
...... 298-300
VUL
Тни
Advance op India towabds Dominion Status
· · - 301
Indian loyalty in
1914.........301
Growth of revolutionary feeling daring the war
.... 301-2
Responsible government the declared British aim
ι
Montagu-Chelms-
ford Report
..........302-3
Government of India Aot,
1919 ....... 303-6
CONTENTS
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PASI
Effects of British polioy
.......«. 805-6
Revolutionary movement,
1919 :
Amritsar
· · · · 306-7
Gandhi s polioy and leadership
....... 307-8
Moslem discontent
:
the Khilafat movement
..... 303
Gandhi s non-co-operation
:
Moplah revolt
:
efiect of
reforma
· 308-10
Simon Commission and Report
......310-11
Responsible government still the British aim
ι
Gandhi s civil dis¬
obedience
........ ·. 311-12
Moslem and Hindu antagonism
:
political safeguards
· · 312-13
Round Table Conferences and White Paper,
1930-3 ... 313-14
Government of India Act,
1935 ...... 314-15
Responsible government a partial success
...... 315
Federation delayed
:
the second World War
:
India to frame its own
constitution
......... 315-16
Indianization of the government services
··.··. 316
IS. The Tbusteeship
.......... 317
(i) Egypt, Palestine and Iraq
Changing standards
.......... 317
Egypt
:
protectorate,
1914 :
independence in stages,
1922-37 · 317-18
Palestine
:
the Balfour Declaration and Arab claims
· 318-19
Unsolved problem of Jewish and Arab relations
.... 319
Iraq
:
mandated area
:
sovereign state
..... 319-20
(ü)
Went Africa
Lord Lugard and the Dual Mandate
....... 320-1
Gambia and Sierra Leone
:
modern developments
.... 321
Gold Coast
:
railways
:
oocoa
:
mining
:
education
.... 321-3
Nigeria
:
development of exports
:
social
progresa
.... 323-4
(iii)
Maat
Africa
Kenya
:
settlers
:
land allocation
:
war losses
..... 324-5
Demand for responsible government
:
White Paper of
1923 · · 325-8
Indirect rule in Kenya
......... 326-7
Tanganyika under German and British rule
..... 327-8
Uganda
:
government, state services and economio progress
. · 328-9
Remaining East African dependencies
..... 329-30
(iv)
Ceylon and Burma
Ceylon
:
nineteenth century progress
:
Donoughmore constitution,
1931............330-1
Burma separated from India
:
constitution of
1937 · · · - 331-2
(v) Malaya
New protectorates,
1909 ·-·.·.... 332
Recent developments and events
....... 832-3
(vi)
The British West Indies
Economio depression and distress
....... 833-4
Education
:
malnutrition
:
disease
....... 334-5
Royal Commission and its recommendations,
1938-40 ... 335
Social and political reform
........ 335-6
X. The British Commonwealth between the Wabs
.... 337
Commonwealth populations
........ 337
Canada
:
growth of population and industrialization
.... 337-8
Canada at war in
1939......... 838-9
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Australia: industrial interests and economio
depressioni
separatism
in Western Australia
........339-40
New Zealand and the great depression
......340
Newfoundland
:
bankruptcy and temporary resignation of dominion
status
...........340-1
South African politics
:
Smuts and Hertzog
..... 341-2
The native question
...--.··.· 342-3
Election of
1924 :
Hertzog in power
:
segregation polioy
:
republican¬
ism
:
the flag dispute
........343-4
Hertzog-Smuts coalition,
1933 :
declaration of war,
1939 ... 344-5
Southern Rhodesia
:
responsible government and the native question
345-6
Malta s politioal record
:
Cyprus and enosia
..... 346-8
Irish Free State
..........348
The Commonwealth constitution
:
autonomy and co-operation
· · 348-9
Imperial Conference of
1921 :
Washington Conference, with Dominion
participation
:
control of foreign policy established
· 349-60
Progress of imperial preference,
1923-4 ...... 350-1
Economio changes
:
Empire Settlement Act
:
Empire Marketing Board
351-2
Dominions and the Pact of Locarno,
1925.....352
The Commonwealth constitution
>
definition of
1926.... 353
Statute of Westminster,
1931....... 353-4
New Irish constitution,
1937 :
the Irish ports,
1938 .... 354-5
The Commonwealth and world-depression
ι
Ottawa Conference,
1932 355
Imperial Conference,
1937........356
XI.
Тни
Commonwealth and
Емивв
is
гић
Second Woeld
Wab
- 357
Nature of the war
..........357
North and East Africa in
1940-1 :
defeat of the Italians
- . .358
The Germans enter North Africa
:
siege of Tobruk
.... 368-9
The Japanese declare war
:
early British losses
:
Singapore
- 359-60
Commonwealth forces in
1942........360
Rommel s advance into Egypt,
1942.......361
Battle of Alamein and expulsion of Germans from Africa,
1942-3 - 361
The Japanese in the Pacifio
........361-2
India and Burma
:
the Fourteenth Army and recovery
... 362
The Commonwealth s entry into the war
:
Smuts and South Afrioa
- 362-3
The Canadian army
:
Canada s war effort
......363-4
Australian fields of action
:
Australia s war effort
.... 364
The New Zealand forces
......... 364-5
The South African forces
:
mobility of the Army
.... 365-6
The great Indian war effort
......· - 366
The war s stimulus to development
....... 866
Epilogue
by Donald Southgate
........ 367-78
Authorities
·.......... 379-81
Index
.............383-91
LIST OF MAPS
Canada in
1939............81
South Africa,
1939............129
India,
1939.............149
Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific,
1939......
Facing
219
Afrioa,
1939.............293
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