Imperial Reconstruction 1763-1840: The Evolution of Alternative Systems of Colonial Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth Volume III

Imperial Reconstruction 1763-1840: The Evolution of Alternative Systems of Colonial Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth Volume III

Imperial Reconstruction 1763-1840: The Evolution of Alternative Systems of Colonial Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth Volume III

Imperial Reconstruction 1763-1840: The Evolution of Alternative Systems of Colonial Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth Volume III

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Overview

This collection of documents presents an enlightening picture of the colonial government of the British Commonwealth during the Second British Empire. Using numerous original documents, with preference given to those not previously published or readily available, the editors have delineated the major themes of the period from 1763 to 1840.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313259166
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/16/1987
Series: Documents in Imperial History , #1
Pages: 933
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.94(d)

About the Author

FREDERICK MADDEN was Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, from 1958 to 1984 and held the post of Reader in Commonwealth Government for all but one of the twenty-eight years of its existence.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Bibliographical Note
I. Metropolitan Government and Its Policies, 1763-1840
Continuities and the Response to New Problems, 1763-1793
Evolution and Innovation, 1793-1840
II. Developments in the Old Empire
The Failure to Manage Ireland as a Separate Kingdom, c.1750-1800
Imperial Authority and the East India Company, 1757-1840
The "Ancient" West Indies, 1763-1840
III. New Possessions and New Imperial Systems, 1763-1840
New and "New-Modelled" Colonies and Experiments, 1763-1840
The Parting of the Ways: Self-Government or Crown Colony Government, 1793-1840
Index

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