The Durham Report and British Policy
The Durham Report and British Policy

Author: Ged Martin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1972-11-09

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9780521085304

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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. Durham's vanity and arrogance made him a poor choice for the post, and he resigned a few months later after the government had been forced to overrule him for exceeding his powers. After his return to Britain he wrote his Report on the Affairs of British North America - and its unauthorized publication in the Times caused a sensation. This report - the famous 'Durham Report' - has been seen as the starting point of the British tradition of colonial self-rule leading through the Statute of Westminster of 1931 to the independent self-governing Commonwealth of today.

British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell
British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell

Author: W.P. Morrell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-03

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 1000855546

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British Colonial Policy in the Age of Peel and Russell (1930) examines British colonial administration during the administrations of Sir Robert Peel and Lord John Russell. In this period, 1815–41, new ideas were adopted and colonial policy was revolutionized. British attitudes towards colonization and Australia, New Zealand and North America underwent radical changes.