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.

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 Theories 1570-1850
British Colonial Theories 1570-1850

Author: Klaus E. Knorr

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1944-12-15

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1487591012

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The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable or unprofitable to the British nation? Professor Knorr has performed a major service in providing a selection of representative statements in the course of a discussion which proceeds by chronological periods and also by important topics from contemporary events. The original printing of this work, published in 1944, was received with enthusiastic reviews and went out of print in a few years. An equally warm welcome can be predicted now.

Colonial Connections 1815-1845
Colonial Connections 1815-1845

Author: Zoe Laidlaw

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9780719069185

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This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. By the 1830s the conviction that personal connections were the best way of exerting influence within the imperial sphere went well beyond the metropolitan government, as lobbyists, settlers and missionaries also developed personal connections to advance their causes.

Colonial connections, 1815–45
Colonial connections, 1815–45

Author: Zoë Laidlaw

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2013-07-19

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1784990000

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This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, the British government ruled a more diverse empire than ever before, and the Colonial Office responded by cultivating strong personal links with governors and colonial officials through which influence, patronage and information could flow. By the 1830s the conviction that personal connections were the best way of exerting influence within the imperial sphere went well beyond the metropolitan government, as lobbyists, settlers and missionaries also developed personal connections to advance their causes. However, the successive crises in the 1830s exposed these complicated networks of connection to hostile metropolitan scrutiny. This book challenges traditional notions of a radical revolution in government, identifying a more profound and general transition from a metropolitan reliance on gossip and personal information to the embrace of new statistical forms of knowledge. The analysis moves between London, New South Wales and the Cape Colony, encompassing both government insiders and those who struggled against colonial and imperial governments.