A short history of British expansion

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... political genius. Forms and formulas may still have to be adjusted, but the real work is done." AUTHORITIES FOR PART V. The following works are of general application to the subject matter of the preceding chapters: Prof. H. E. Egerton, Short History of British Colonial Policy, 4th edn., London, 1913; C. H. Currey, British Colonial Policy 1783-1915, Oxford, 1918; Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, De la colonisation chez les peuples modernes, 6th cdn., Paris, 1908; and (for later years) Dr. A. B. Keith's Responsible Government in the Dominions, 3 vols., Oxford, 1912. These should be considered as forming part of the list for each of the white dominions in addition to the works mentioned under separate headings below. For correlation of colonial history with English political affairs vols, x., xi., and xii. of the Political History of England will be found useful. CHAPTER I. THE CHANGING WORLD, 1783-1850 The general works given above, with the exception of Dr. Keith's, are particularly useful for the general survey contained in this chapter. Contemporary views on colonization are expressed in Gibbon Wakefield's Art of Colonization (1849), latest edn., London, 1914; Sir G. Cornewall Lewis, Essay on the Government of Dependencies (1841), new edn. with introduction by Sir C. P. Lucas, 1891; and Herman Merivale, Lectures on Colonization and Colonies, 2nd edn., London, 1861. Dr. R. Garnett's Life of Wakefield, London, 1898, is also useful.1 Lecky's History of England, 1892 edn., vols. v. and vii. contain a summary of the events leading to the abolition of the slave trade. For social and economic developments Arnold Toynbee's Lectures on the Industrial Revolution, new edn., London, 1908, should be consulted. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is still the most lucid explanation o...