Settler Self-Government 1840-1900: The Development of Representative and Responsible Government; Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth; Volume IVFrederick Madden, David Kenneth Fieldhouse Bloomsbury Academic, 1985 - 864 páginas As the previous volumes in this series have shown, Britain's system of unfederal government had, by 1840, passed a cultural crossroads. There had been a parting of the ways in which the old representative system that had provided rule for colonies (including those in America and the Caribbean) in earlier centuries was being superseded. In this fourth volume Madden and Fieldhouse focus on those colonies in North America, Australasia, and South Africa where British subjects had settled in considerable numbers, and where the restrictions of the old system had been outgrown and representative and responsible government was developing toward full self-government. This fourth volume illustrates the larger themes in the evolution of self-government in these colonies. |