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  • - British-Canadian Relations 1917-1926
    av Philip G. Wigley
    445,-

    This book studies the relations between Britain and Canada from the end of the First World War to the Imperial Conference of 1926. It is concerned principally with the problems of imperial co-operation and consultation in foreign affairs and defence policy, and with the pressures developing out of these problems to reformulate the constitutional relations of Britain and her dominions.

  • - Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English
     
    1 362,-

    The critical essays have been chosen to open up possibilities, mark out boundaries and set objectives in the ever-expanding field of international literature in English. New literary and critical practices are derived from the problematic role of English as an international language and from its relations with other languages.

  • - Images of Authority in the British Colonies, 1820-60
    av M. Francis
    1 362,-

    In nineteenth-century settler colonies such as Upper Canada, New South Wales and New Zealand, governors not only administered, they stood at the head of colonial society and ordered the festivities and ceremonies around which colonial life centred.

  • - Volume 2: 1951-64
    av Andrew Porter & A. J. Stockwell
    1 940,-

    Current interest in Britain's imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial.

  • av B. R. Tomlinson
    1 940,-

  • - The politics of partition reappraised
    av D. M. Schreuder
    534,-

    The Scramble for Southern Africa formed one of the most dramatic episodes in the more general European assault on Africa by the forces of the New Imperialism in the later nineteenth century. This book offers a fresh reappraisal of the complex sequence of events which surrounded the Partition of Africa south of the Zambesi in the years 1877-95.

  • - The Experience of the Nineteen-Sixties
    av Robinson
    458,-

    This 1971 volume selects some of the most important papers which were delivered during the 1960s in the Cambridge Conferences on Development, and presents them as a contribution to the discussion on how economic development could best be planned and advanced for the Third World. This book is a valuable contribution to making poor countries richer.

  • - Politics, Society and British Colonialism in Central America
    av C. H. (University of Waterloo Grant
    712,-

    Belize (formerly British Honduras) is a residue of the British Empire and the last colony in the Americas. Like most colonies in this age of decolonisation Belize was willing to break the colonial ties and in fact achieved internal self-government in 1964.

  • - A Study in the 'New Imperialism'
    av John S. Galbraith
    483,-

    Professor Galbraith's book considers this episode in British Imperial history, the factors involved and Mackinnon's part in it. The book considers the interaction of Mackinnon and the government from the 1870s when his first efforts in east Africa were frustrated by Salisbury to the liquidation of the company in the mid-1890s.

  • - A Critical Essay
    av Ged Martin
    458,-

    In 1838 Lord Melbourne's Whig government in Britain sent the radical Lord Durham to Canada as Governor-General to deal with a colony in the aftermath of a rebellion.

  • - The Politics of Participation
    av G. Andrew Maguire
    534,-

    In the belief that intensive study of selected local areas is an important development in scholarship on Africa, the author presents a micropolitical study of an important region of one of East Africa's Rew nations. Sukumaland, an area of Tanzania which contains one tenth of the country's population and its largest tribe, was chosen for the study.

  • - How Kerala became 'a Model'
    av Robin Jeffrey
    2 951,-

    In 1990, Kerala on the southwestern coast has India's lowest infant mortality, longest life expectancy and highest female literacy. Women retained a circumscribed but influential position in social life. The result is an instructive analysis for students of politics, development policy and women's issues.

  • av Margaret P. Doxey
    713,-

    A review of the Commonwealth Secretariat's organization, resources and performance together with an exploration of the role of the Secretary-General and a discussion of the problems of financial stringency and political strain over South Africa. It is aimed at specialists and general readers.

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